Lennard Kämna

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

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. 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. In June 2015, he also became the German under-23 champion in the time trial.

Professional career
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 was named in the startlist for 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. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.

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.

Major results

 * 2013
 * 4th Overall Int. 3-Etappenfahrt der Rad-Junioren


 * 2014
 * 1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
 * 1st European champion jersey 2014.svg Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotAlemania.PNG Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotAlemania.PNG National Junior Hillclimb Championships
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg 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 MaillotAlemania.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 1st Stage 4 Giro della Valle d'Aosta Mont Blanc
 * UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Time trial
 * 10th Road race
 * 6th Overall Course de la Paix Under-23
 * 9th Giro del Belvedere


 * 2016
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
 * 4th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
 * 6th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification


 * 2017
 * UCI Road World Championships
 * 1st Gold medal uci.svg Team time trial
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg 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 MaillotAlemania.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stage 4
 * Held MaillotAzul.PNG after Stages 4–6
 * Jersey red number.svg 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