Lennard Kämna Explained

Lennard Kämna
Birth Date:	1996 9, df=yes^[1]
Birth Place:	Wedel, Germany
Height:	1.81m (05.94feet)
Weight:	65kg (143lb)
Discipline:	Road
Role:	Rider
Ridertype:	All-rounder
Amateuryears1:	2007–2010
Amateurteam1:	RRG Bremen
Amateuryears2:	2011–2014
Amateurteam2:	RSC Cottbus
Proyears1:	2015–2016
Proyears2:	2017–2019
Proteam2:	^[2]
Proyears3:	2020–
Proteam3:	^[3]
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)

Lennard Kämna (born 9 September 1996) is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .^[4] He rode with in 2015, before his team and merged for the 2016 season.^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Career

Junior cycling

At the age of 14, Kämna left his family home in Bremen to attend a sports school in Cottbus.^[8] In 2014, he became the junior world champion in the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships,^[9] having already won the German and European championships at the same level earlier in the year.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.^[10] In June 2015, he also became the German under-23 champion in the time trial.^[11]

Professional career

In his first year as a professional, he won the German under-23 Bundesliga and became German mountain champion (Deutsche Bergmeisterschaften).^[12] ^[13] On 14 September 2016, Kämna won the gold medal in the under-23 time trial event at the European Road Championships in Plumelec, France.^[14]

He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España,^[15] 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. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.^[16]

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.^[17] 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.^[18] Kamna won stage four of the 2022 Giro d’Italia after being part of a breakaway group on a mountain stage.^[19]