Reigning world champion Amy Cure has won Australia's first gold medal at the Track Cycling World Cup meet in London with a one-point victory in the women's points race.
Cure was part of the women's pursuit team which won silver on Friday night but went one better on Saturday night (Sunday morning AEDT) at the Olympic velodrome.
The 21-year-old scored points in the first two sprints and was one of seven riders who stole a lap halfway through the 80-lap event.
The Tasmanian then immediately went to the front and continued working to deter more attacks.
With the last of eight sprints remaining Cure needed to finish directly behind Canadian Jasmine Glaesser to take the title - which she duly did.
The Australia finished on 34 points to Glaesser's 33.
"Once I gained a lap it was more important for me to go to the front and control the race to how I was feeling," Cure told AAP.
"That's what I wanted to do and it helped me in the end.
"I knew it was going to come down to that last sprint and I knew I just had to try and stay in behind her (Glaesser).
"It would have been nice to have it not so close but it was really a tough race."
Cure won the world title in Columbia in early March.
The Australian said wearing the rainbow jersey meant competitors were more inclined to watch her which helped her dictate the pace.
Glaesser took bronze at the worlds. In London on Saturday the third step of the podium was occupied by Great Britain's Elinor Barker.
In the men's madison the Australian pair of Alex Edmondson and Callum Scotson finished a gallant fourth.
Within the last six laps they got within half a lap of snatching the win from Great Britain but couldn't quite close the gap.
New Zealand were second with Germany taking home the bronze medal.
Australia's sprint queen Anna Meares on Saturday returned to individual competition at the Olympic velodrome for the first time since winning gold at the 2012 Games.
The 31-year-old finished sixth in the sprint after narrowly losing out to reigning world champion Kristina Vogel in the quarterfinals.
Germany's Vogel went on to win gold by beating Russia's Anastasiia Voinova while Elis Ligtlee from the Netherlands took bronze.
South Australian Stephanie Morton earlier failed to make it through to the quarterfinals.
In the men's keirin, Jacob Schmid from Victoria didn't make it out of the first round.
The three-day meet concludes on Sunday when speedster Matthew Glaetzer will try to again claim the sprint title as he did in Mexico a month ago.
Australia on Friday won two silver medals in the women's team pursuit and the men's team sprint.
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