O'Neill was fastest through every checkpoint on the St Kilda course
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Australian pair Nathan O'Neill and Oenone Woods dominated the men's and women's cycling time-trials on the roads of Melbourne on Tuesday.
O'Neill won the men's 40km race in 48 minutes 37.29 seconds ahead of team-mate Ben Day (49:01.67) and New Zealand's Gordon McCauley (49:50.70).
English trio Stuart Dangerfield, Paul Manning and Steve Cummings finished sixth, ninth and 14th respectively.
Wood led an Australian clean sweep in the women's 25km race.
She clocked 37:56.07 ahead of veteran Kathy Watt and Sara Carrigan.
England's Rachel Heal was fifth as Kiwi star Sarah Ulmer pulled out injured.
Heal, 32, won bronze in the road race in Manchester four years ago but was competing in her first international time-trial.
She said: "I feel I'm embarking on a new venture here. It's the first major time-trial I've really focussed on and I feel it is a good start.
"I have a little bit of a tendency to go out very hard. I have the ability to do myself a lot of damage very early."
Wendy Houvenaghal, born in Northern Ireland but resident in Cornwall and competing for England, was sixth while Scotland's Katrina Hair was ninth.
Manning, an individual and team pursuit gold medallist in the velodrome, came ninth after being hampered by an organisers' vehicle.
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