Craig Mottram tuned up for a tilt at a third Zatopek 10,000m title with an easy victory in the Victorian 5000m championships on Thursday night.

Running at the new athletics venue at Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne, Mottram shared the early pace with placegetters Brenton Rowe and Jeremy Roff before breaking away for a comfortable win in 13min 46.60sec.

A world championships bronze medallist in 2005 and winner of several national titles, this was nonetheless Mottram's first victory in his home state titles.

His clubmate Rowe took second place and last year's winner, NSW's Jeremy Roff, was third.

Mottram's primary aim was to run the pace required for an Olympic A-standard in the 10,000m and he achieved that comfortably.

The Zatopek:10 meet, at Lakeside Stadium on December 10, will be the Olympic selection race and Mottram said he wants to earn a place in the London Olympic team in both the 5000m and 10,000m.

"It's always good to get in the team as quickly as possible," Mottram said. "So I'm going to have a real crack at the Zatopek, get in the first three, get the A-standard and get in the team early."

Sarah Klein ran a time of 17:02.14 to take the women's title from Sinead Diver and Sophie Barker.

AAP