# Lennard Kämna

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

## 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.
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

He rode with Team Stölting in 2015, before his team and Cult Energy Pro Cycling 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 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 Team Sunweb 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 Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
    1st Time trial, UEC European Junior Road 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
       3rd Time trial
       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
       1st Team time trial
       2nd 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 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

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | 9 |
| Tour de France | — | — | 40 | 33 | — | DNF | — |
| Vuelta a España | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | 30 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |