Speaking after recording back-to-back world cup victories in the discipline with South Australian Annette Edmonson, Perth's world championship silver medallist said she was delighted with her country's progress.

"We're really lucky in the Australian Cycling Team because we have so much depth in our program so we can swap partners and still come away with really good results," said Baker, 25.

"Nettie and I had a successful campaign in Glasgow and that was a very sprint dominant race so we wanted to try something different here.

"It's nerve-racking going out there and trying something new but it's also really exciting and I think we have done the training to back ourselves in and pull off a good result no matter what happens."

Having already been a part of Australia's team pursuit triumph at the Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane, Baker and Edmondson secured Australia's only gold medal of the second night by beating their French rivals by 12 points.

The Aussie pair won four out of the first six sprints to build an early lead, before the French duo of Clara Copponi and Marie Le Net clawed back some of the deficit.

Both nations lapped the field to stay clear of the United States who claimed the bronze.

Edmondson added: "It was pretty cool out there, we had to dig deep, we tried a couple of different tactics from last Friday and Glasgow and we're really happy we pulled it off.

"I think in the past we were quite new to this discipline so whenever we got on the front we were like 'oh my gosh we're in front let's go' and we'd win by too much if we happened to win it or we'd be out the back so we wanted to try and make it a bit more consistent."

Baker teamed up with fellow Tasmanian Amy Cure to finish second in the madison at this year's world titles in Poland.

Cure, of West Pine, has been rested from the Australian leg of the world cup circuit.

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