And their state coach believes they are in the box seat.

Georgia Baker, Macey Stewart and Amy Cure will tackle the upcoming UCI track world cup series with a view to qualifying for the 2019 world championships in Poland and 2020 Olympics in Japan.

Tasmanian Institute of Sport cycling coach Matthew Gilmore has been pivotal to the trio’s progress but as a former world champion and Olympian himself was understandably coy when asked if he could see three Tasmanian track cyclists at the Tokyo Olympics.

“When I close my eyes I can,” Gilmore joked.

“There’s a long way to go but we have three in a good position. You’ve got to be in it to win it. They are in the high performance set-up which is the best place to prepare and make the team.”

Stewart, 22, of Devonport, and Baker, of Perth, who turned 24 last month, are coming off superb performances at the Oceania Track Championships at the weekend in Adelaide where they claimed five gold medals between them and teamed up to win the madison.

Stewart has since flown to Paris to tackle the first of the world cups while Baker can expect to be involved in any of the remaining five rounds which also take in North America, Asia and Oceania.

Cure, 25, of West Pine, is on her honeymoon after getting married in Antwerp earlier this month.

Gilmore said Baker was in particularly good form as she seeks to build on her selection for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

“Georgia is back where she was before Rio,” he said. “She’s in international condition. She could make any team at the moment and be very competitive.

“Macey has still got a bit of work to do but her smarts got her through in the madison. Tactically and technically she’s very good.

“She has shown development after a solid road season in Europe. She does not quite have the track legs yet but that will come.”

Stewart will race the madison with Queensland’s Kristina Clonan at the world cup in Paris while Baker returns to Adelaide where Cure will also head following her honeymoon as she chases a third Olympic selection.

“That will be tough for Amy on a personal level but she is committed all the way to Tokyo,” Gilmore said.

“This is the run-in to Tokyo so it’s really important to qualify spots for the worlds which then qualifies spots for the Olympics so everyone has got to be on their A-game at the world cups.

“From a coaching perspective you would not send riders to all six but might send the whole team to one and maybe compete in a team pursuit.”

The world cup series will take riders to the best velodromes in the world.

Paris hosted the world championships in 2015, Berlin did the same in 1999 and will again in 2020, London’s Lee Valley VeloPark hosted the 2012 Olympics and 2016 world championships and Hong Kong staged the 2017 world titles.

The 2019 world championships will be in Pruszkow, Poland, from February 27 to March 3.