Bull and Burnett edge closer to Rio berth

Alyssa Bull and Alyce Burnett have edged closer to securing themselves a place on the Australian Olympic team after victory in the women's K2 500m final at the Oceania Championships in Adelaide.

The first Olympic selection trial win for the pair puts them a step ahead of their competition with the second selection trial to take place at the National Sprint Championships in Perth next month.

The Sunshine Coast pair got off to a great start before settling into the race well, they were challenged in the closing 250 metres by Jo Brigden-Jones and Naomi Flood but held them off by 0.92 seconds to win in 1:47.82.

The win was a relief for the pair having gone within 0.03 seconds of victory at the first Grand Prix in December.

"We have always just been touched out every race so to finally put it all together and come up with a win is great," Burnett said.

"To be one step ahead of everyone in the Olympic selection process is obviously the biggest bonus, but its lots of hard work now and in a few weeks we have to do it all again, so hopefully we can replicate that."

Bull believes that all of their training is finally paying off.

"We have been working really hard, everyone has been working really hard so its hard to get a sense of what everyone else is doing, but we have been doing what we need to work on in training and its starting to pay off, we are starting to put in some good races," Bull said.