Lianne Lippert got her season underway successfully, winning the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and finishing second overall in the Santos Women’s Tour Down Under.

The results are off the back of a few seasons where her talent was evident and led to Team Sunweb signing her to a long-term contract.

Xylon van Eyck visited Lianne at her home in Friedrichshafen to talk about how her love for cycling came about, where she thinks her career will go and some surprises about her time in the German police.