Lennard Kämna

Lennard Kämna (born 9 September 1996) is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Career

Junior cycling At the age of 14, Kämna left his family home in Bremen to attend a sports school in Cottbus. In 2014, he became the junior world champion in the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships, having already won the German and European championships at the same level earlier in the year. In June 2015, he also became the German under-23 champion in the time trial.

Professional career He rode with in 2015, before his team and merged for the 2016 season. In his first year as a professional, he won the German under-23 Bundesliga and became German mountain champion (Deutsche Bergmeisterschaften). On 14 September 2016, Kämna won the gold medal in the under-23 time trial event at the European Road Championships in Plumelec, France.

He rode in the 2017 Vuelta a España, and completed 17 stages of the race. At the 2017 UCI Road World Championships, Kämna was part of the squad that took the gold medal in the men's team time trial competition, and went on to claim the silver medal in the under-23 road race behind Benoît Cosnefroy. In June 2018 Sunweb announced that Kämna would take a break from cycle racing "reflect on his long-term career goals", having not raced since Milan-San Remo earlier that year due to illness.

Kämna took his first senior individual race win at the 2020 Critérium du Dauphiné, where he won the fourth stage. Shortly afterwards he rode the 2020 Tour de France, where he took his first Grand Tour stage win on stage 16 of the race, attacking a reducing lead group on the penultimate climb and being joined by Richard Carapaz, and subsequently countering an attack by Carapaz and building up a lead on the descent and the last climb to win by one and a half minutes. He had previously narrowly missed out on the win on the thirteenth stage of the race, losing out in the final sprint to Daniel Martínez at the summit finish on Puy Mary. Kamna won stage four of the 2022 Giro d’Italia after being part of a breakaway group on a mountain stage. Kamna was part of three breakaways during the 2022 Tour de France but failed to win a stage, although he briefly held the virtual yellow jersey during stage 10 and finished that stage second in the general classification. In the second half of the race, he caught a persistent cold, and withdrew when his condition failed to improve after the second rest day.

Major results

2013 4th Overall Int. 3-Etappenfahrt der Rad-Junioren 2014 1st Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships

1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 1st National Junior Hillclimb Championships 1st Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland 1st Stage 1 2nd Overall Tour of Istria - Memorial Edi Rajkovic 1st Stage 2 2nd Overall Trofeo Karlsberg 1st Stage 2b (ITT) 4th Overall Peace Race Juniors 2015 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Stage 4 Giro della Valle d'Aosta Mont Blanc UCI Under-23 Road World Championships

10th Road race 6th Overall Course de la Paix Under-23 9th Giro del Belvedere 2016 1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships 4th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships 6th Overall Circuit des Ardennes 1st Young rider classification 2017 UCI Road World Championships

5th Overall Tour des Fjords 2020 (2 pro wins) 1st Stage 16 Tour de France 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia 4th Pollença–Andratx 7th Overall Volta ao Algarve 8th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 1st Stage 4 2021 (1) 1st Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya 2022 (4) 1st Time trial, National Road Championships Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 4 Held after Stages 4–6 Combativity award Stage 1 1st Stage 3 Tour of the Alps 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía 4th Faun-Ardèche Classic 4th Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior 2023 (2) 1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 6th Overall Tour of the Alps 1st Stage 3 9th Overall Giro d'Italia 2024 8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 2025 National Road Championships 3rd Time trial 4th Road race 6th Overall Tour de Suisse 6th Overall Tour of Austria

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia — — — — — 199 — — Tour de France — — 40 33 — DNF — — Vuelta a España DNF — — — — — 30 —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish