Four years after making the Australian team for the London Olympics but missing out on a competitive ride, the West Pine wonder should head to Rio de Janeiro as a reigning team pursuit world champion and record holder.

"I've always said I went into London with the wrong mindset of just wanting to represent Australia at the Olympics but I think having been to London I'm now going to Rio to stand on the podium and hopefully win a gold medal," Cure said.

"Last year's world championships really set a good benchmark and surprised us but we're aiming to go better each time.

"Having closed that gap on the Poms we've set our own benchmark and are really just trying to improve ourselves and set our own standards now."

Cure's membership of the quartet that broke Great Britain's stranglehold on the team pursuit world championship, followed by individual silver in the scratch race and bronze in the individual pursuit made the 22-year-old the standout candidate in the Tasmanian athlete of the year awards.

The multiple junior and senior world champion emerged victorious from a top-class field also including cricket World Cup final man-of-the-match James Faulkner, AFL premiership winner Grant Birchall, victorious Tour de France lieutenant Richie Porte, IPC shot put world champion Todd Hodgetts and Kookaburras player of the year Eddie Ockenden.

A perennial finalist in the annual awards, Cure was delighted to become the first female winner of an accolade previously claimed by Ockenden, fellow cyclists Porte and Matt Goss and boxer Daniel Geale.

"It's an honour to win such a prestigious award when you look at all the other competitors Tassie has, everyone's giving it their best, we get a lot of good results and it's good to see.

"It's been a really good year, not only for me but for everyone. It's been my best year on a bike and getting the team pursuit world record this year with such a great group of girls was pretty amazing."

Adelaide-based Cure was on a flying visit home before heading to Cambridge in New Zealand in a world cup team also including Perth's Georgia Baker.

While still deciding whether to make her seasonal appearance at the Tasmanian Christmas Carnivals, Cure said the world cup followed by the world championships in London will play the pivotal role in her Olympic build-up.

The 2014 points race world champion, who has amassed eight medals from senior world titles plus two from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, will be joined by world record-holding endurance teammates Ashlee Ankudinoff, Annette Edmondson and Melissa Hoskins plus Baker and

Isabella King for the first ever world cup in New Zealand from December 4 to 6.

"It's always been said that we wanted to send our A-team to New Zealand and obviously it's good to go over there and awesome that Georgia could come along too. I'm really excited that we're going away together because we're really good friends and I'm looking forward to sharing that experience together.

"We're still planning to give the world champs our best shot but obviously Rio is the long-term goal."