Launceston's Nicole Frain is blazing a successful trail across Europe on the back of becoming Australian road race champion.
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Since claiming the national title in January, the 29-year-old has raced in Belgium and the Netherlands with her sights now set on Spain.
In Saturday's 134-kilometre one-day Leiedal Koerse race in the Belgian municipality of Harelbeke, Frain was in a bunch sprint for fifth, eventually recording a 12th-place finish from 150 starters for her Roxsolt Liv SRAM team.
Frain said she was "super excited" for the new race which she described as "a really cool mix of Belgium classic climbs and cobbles".
"The focus was to really breakdown the key sectors of the race and tick them off. I felt I did this well, my positioning meant I was able to be in all the main splits including leading it up the Knokteberg, the first climb of the day."
Frain was scheduled to ride the three-stage Vuelta Andalucia Ruta Del Sol from Tuesday, however, she said on Instagram: "Still suffering some right leg injury since being hit by a car a couple weeks ago so will see how the body holds up."
She is also listed to race in France and Germany later this month.
The six-stage 35th Internationale Thringen Ladies Tour beginning on May 24 could see a reprisal of the Tassie Cup with Frain likely to line up against Georgia Baker.
Perth's 27-year-old two-time Olympian has had a busy season with Team BikeExchange-Jayco, competing in Spain and the Netherlands plus no less than nine races across Belgium before the track nations cup in Glasgow.
Baker's best result on the road came in the Scheldeprijs vrouwen elite on April 6 where she came fourth.
A team pursuit world champion in 2019, Baker has returned to the Spanish city of Girona seeking to qualify for her second Commonwealth Games. She finished fifth in the team pursuit and seventh in the madison on the Gold Coast in 2018.
Launceston mountain biker Izzy Flint is also eying the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and has been racing in Switzerland and Austria.