Lennard Kämna

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Lennard Kämna

| image = Lennard Kämna (2018-08-24) - Deutschland Tour 2018 Bonn.jpg

| caption = Kämna at the 2018 Deutschland Tour

| fullname =

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1996|9|9}}{{cite web|title=Lennard \ Kämna|url=http://www.team-stoelting.com/rider/lennard-kaemna|website=team-stoelting.com|accessdate=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925125131/http://www.team-stoelting.com/rider/lennard-kaemna|archive-date=25 September 2015|url-status=dead}}

| birth_place = Wedel, Germany

| height = {{convert|1.81|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|65|kg|lb st|abbr=on}}

| currentteam = {{UCI team code|TFS men}}

| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

| ridertype = All-rounder

| amateuryears1 = 2007–2010

| amateurteam1 = RRG Bremen

| amateuryears2 = 2011–2014

| amateurteam2 = RSC Cottbus

| proyears1 = 2015–2016

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|SSG|2015}}

| proyears2 = 2017–2019

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|SUN|2017}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/team-sunweb-confirm-2019-mens-and-womens-rosters/|title=Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters|work=Cyclingnews.com|publisher=Immediate Media Company|date=23 November 2018|accessdate=5 January 2019}}

| proyears3 = 2020–2024

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|BOH|2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/team-preview-bora-hansgrohe/|title=2020 Team Preview: Bora-Hansgrohe|first=Barry|last=Ryan|work=Cyclingnews.com|publisher=Future plc|date=28 December 2019|accessdate=1 January 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15235/1001554/279|title=Bora - Hansgrohe|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|accessdate=1 January 2021|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20210101053525/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15235/1001554/279|archivedate=1 January 2021}}

| proyears4 = 2025–

| proteam4 = {{UCI team code|TFS men|2025}}

| majorwins = Grand Tours

:Tour de France

::1 individual stage (2020)

:Giro d'Italia

::1 individual stage (2022)

:Vuelta a España

::1 individual stage (2023)

One-day races and Classics

:National Time Trial Championships (2022)

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry| {{GER}} }}

{{MedalCountry| {{nowrap|{{UCI team code|SUN|2017}}}} }}

}}

Lennard Kämna (born 9 September 1996) is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam {{UCI team code|TFS men}}.{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/team-details/20244|title=Lidl-Trek|publisher=UCI|access-date=January 5, 2025}}

Career

File:Tour de France 2019, Lennard Kämna (48416905921).jpg]]

= Junior cycling =

At the age of 14, Kämna left his family home in Bremen to attend a sports school in Cottbus.{{cite web |url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/kamna-takes-time-out-from-racing-to-reflect-on-long-term-career-goals/ |title=Kamna takes time out from racing to reflect on long-term career goals |author= |date=29 June 2018 |website=cyclingnews.com |access-date=16 September 2020}} In 2014, he became the junior world champion in the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships,{{cite web|title=Straßenrad-WM: Zeitfahrer Kämna gewinnt erstes Gold für Deutschland|url=http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/strassenrad-wm-lennard-kaemna-holt-goldmedaille-a-993281.html|publisher=Der Spiegel|accessdate=23 September 2015|language=German|date=23 September 2014}} having already won the German and European championships at the same level earlier in the year.

File:Tour de France 2022 - 7. Etappe - Lennard Kämna.jpg]]

A year later, he finished third in the under-23 time trial at the World Championships in Richmond. His effort was impeded by strong winds and light rain, a fact that benefited first and second placed Mads Würtz Schmidt and Maximilian Schachmann, who both started earlier in the day.{{cite web|title=Schmidt wins U23 time trial title at the World Championships|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/uci-road-world-championships/u23-men-individual-time-trial/results/|website=cyclingnews.com|accessdate=23 September 2015|date=22 September 2015}} In June 2015, he also became the German under-23 champion in the time trial.{{cite web|last1=Mattis|first1=Felix|title=Kämna: Erfolgreicher Abiturient nun auch U23-Zeitfahrmeister|url=http://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_93820.htm|website=radsport-news.com|accessdate=23 September 2015|language=German|date=26 June 2015}}

=Professional career=

He rode with {{UCI team code|SSG|2015}} in 2015, before his team and {{UCI team code|CUL|2015}} merged for the 2016 season.{{cite web|title=News shorts: Thomas to ride revolution, Kamna to Cult Energy|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/news-shorts-thomas-to-ride-revolution-kamna-to-cult-energy/|website=cyclingnews.com|accessdate=23 September 2015|date=23 September 2015}}{{cite web|title=CULT Energy Pro Cycling continue as CULT Energy-Stölting Group|url=http://cultenergyprocycling.com/cult-energy-pro-cycling-continue-as-cult-energy-stolting-group/|publisher=Cult Energy Pro Cycling|accessdate=24 September 2015|date=20 August 2015}}{{cite web|title=Cult Energy team saved thanks to new sponsor Stölting Group|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cult-energy-team-saved-thanks-to-new-sponsor-stlting-group/|website=cyclingnews.com|accessdate=24 September 2015|date=20 August 2015}} In his first year as a professional, he won the German under-23 Bundesliga and became German mountain champion (Deutsche Bergmeisterschaften).{{cite web|title=Bundesliga: Walscheid und Kasper gewinnen in Cottbus - Kämna und Zanner Gesamtsieger 2015|url=http://www.rad-net.de/nachrichten/bundesliga-walscheid-und-kasper-gewinnen-in-cottbus-kaemna-und-zanner-gesamtsieger-2015;n_37483.html|website=rad-net.de|accessdate=23 September 2015|language=German|date=13 September 2015}}{{cite web|title=Dombrowski, Kämna und Adamietz Deutsche Meister am Berg|url=http://www.rad-net.de/nachrichten/dombrowski,-kaemna-und-adamietz-deutsche-meister-am-berg;n_37419.html|website=rad-net.de|accessdate=23 September 2015|language=German|date=6 September 2015}} On 14 September 2016, Kämna won the gold medal in the under-23 time trial event at the European Road Championships in Plumelec, France.{{cite web|title=Kamna wins U23 time trial at UEC European Championships |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uec-road-european-championship-2016/u23-men-time-trial/results/ |website=cyclingnews.com |accessdate=15 September 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915110652/http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uec-road-european-championship-2016/u23-men-time-trial/results/ |archivedate=15 September 2016 |date=14 September 2016 |url-status=dead }}

He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España,{{cite web | url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Vuelta_a_Espana_2017_Startlist | title=2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist | accessdate=17 August 2017| work= ProCyclingStats}} and completed 17 stages of the race. At the 2017 UCI Road World Championships, Kämna was part of the {{UCI team code|SUN|2018}} 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. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.{{Cite web|url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2019/gc/startlist|title=2019: 106th Tour de France: Start List |accessdate=1 July 2019|work=ProCyclingStats}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.velonews.com/events/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-stage-16-lennard-kamna-solos-to-stage-win/ |title=Tour de France stage 16: Lennard Kämna solos to stage win |author= |date=15 September 2020 |website=VeloNews |access-date=16 September 2020}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/stage-winner-kamna-determined-to-finish-alone-for-first-tour-de-france-victory/ |title=Stage winner Kamna determined to finish alone for first Tour de France victory |last=Fotheringham |first=Alasdair |author-link=Alasdair Fotheringham |date=15 September 2020|website=cyclingnews.com|access-date=16 September 2020}}

Kamna won stage four of the 2022 Giro d’Italia after being part of a breakaway group on a mountain stage.https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/giro-d-italia-2022/stage-4/results/

Major results

;2013

: 4th Overall Int. 3-Etappenfahrt der Rad-Junioren

;2014

: 1st 20px Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships

: 1st 20px Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships

: 1st 20px Time trial, National Junior Road Championships

: 1st 20px National Junior Hillclimb Championships

: 1st 20px 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 20px Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships

: 1st Stage 4 Giro della Valle d'Aosta Mont Blanc

: UCI Under-23 Road World Championships

::3rd 15px Time trial

::10th Road race

: 6th Overall Course de la Paix Under-23

: 9th Giro del Belvedere

;2016

: 1st 20px Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

: 4th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships

: 6th Overall Circuit des Ardennes

::1st 20px Young rider classification

;2017

: UCI Road World Championships

::1st 15px Team time trial

::2nd 15px Under-23 road race

: 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 20px Time trial, National Road Championships

: Giro d'Italia

::1st Stage 4

::Held 20px after Stages 4–6

::20px 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

=Grand Tour general classification results timeline=

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