Leah Kirchmann

Leah Kirchmann (born 30 June 1990) is a Canadian racing cyclist. She competed for Team Canada at the Rio 2016, and Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games in the sport of road cycling. In 2017, she won the Team-Time-Trial World Championships with Team Sunweb in Bergen, Norway. At the 2014 Global Relay Canadian Road Championships, held in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, she won the road race, time trial and the criterium, becoming the first woman to win all three titles in the same year.

Career Kirchmann's first sport was cross-country skiing. She continued to compete as a skier until about the age of 18. Kirchmann originally started mountain biking as summer training for ski racing. She turned professional in 2011 with the team.

In June 2016, she was officially named in Canada's 2016 Olympic team. She also qualified to represent Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

In August 2022, Kirchmann announced that she would retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2022 season. However, in December 2022, it was announced that Kirchmann would form part of the roster for the Denver Disruptors, for the inaugural season of the National Cycling League in 2023.

Major results Source:

2006

2009

2010 National Road Championships

6th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau 2011

Nature Valley Grand Prix 1st Mountains classification 1st Sprints classification 1st Stage 5 4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau 10th Road race, Pan American Road Championships 2012

4th Liberty Classic 9th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche

2013 National Road Championships

2nd Road race 1st White Spot / Delta Road Race 2014 National Road Championships

1st White Spot / Delta Road Race San Dimas Stage Race 1st Sprints classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3 2nd Chrono Gatineau 3rd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic

1st Stages 3 & 4 3rd La Course by Le Tour de France 4th EPZ Omloop van Borsele 6th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour 7th Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau 8th Road race, Commonwealth Games 2015 National Road Championships 2nd Road race 3rd Time trial 3rd Criterium 2nd Overall Tour of California

1st Stages 2 & 3 2nd White Spot / Delta Road Race 4th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race 1st Stage 2 6th Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau 7th Overall San Dimas Stage Race 7th Overall The Women's Tour 7th Philadelphia Cycling Classic 8th Overall Tour of the Gila 2016 1st Drentse Acht van Westerveld 2nd Omloop van het Hageland 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Tour of Chongming Island 3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau 3rd RideLondon Grand Prix 4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 6th Overall The Women's Tour 6th Chrono Gatineau 6th GP de Plouay 7th Gent–Wevelgem 8th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile 1st Prologue 10th Overall Holland Ladies Tour 10th Strade Bianche 10th Ronde van Drenthe 2017

1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Crescent Vårgårda Road Race 4th Overall The Women's Tour 4th White Spot / Delta Road Race 9th Chrono Gatineau 9th Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta 2018 National Road Championships

5th Road race 1st Team time trial, Ladies Tour of Norway 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro Rosa 2nd Brabantse Pijl 2nd Crescent Vårgårda TTT UCI Road World Championships

4th Time trial 4th Overall Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 5th Overall Holland Ladies Tour 2019 National Road Championships

2nd Road race 1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau 2nd Chrono Gatineau 2nd La Course by Le Tour de France 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway 3rd Omloop van het Hageland 3rd Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT 6th Overall The Women's Tour 8th Brabantse Pijl 10th Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden 2020 5th Overall Challenge by La Vuelta 5th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 6th Overall Women's Tour Down Under

9th Race Torquay 2021 2nd Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs 6th Overall The Women's Tour 2022 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships