Lennard Kämna
Lennard Kämna (2018) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | 9th September 1996 (age 23) |
nation | Germany |
discipline | Street |
To the team | |
Current team | Bora-hansgrohe |
function | driver |
Societies) | |
2007-2010 2011-2014 |
RRG Bremen RSC Cottbus |
Team (s) | |
2015–2016 2017–2019 2020 |
Stölting Service Group Team Sunweb Bora-hansgrohe |
Most important successes | |
a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2020 |
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Last updated: August 15, 2020 |
Lennard Kämna (born September 9, 1996 in Wedel ) is a German racing cyclist .
Athletic career
As a junior
Lennard Kämna grew up in Fischerhude in the district of Verden and started cycling at the age of eleven. He was a member of the RRG Bremen association . From the age of 13 he attended the Lausitz sports school in Cottbus .
In 2013, Kämna came second in the overall ranking of the international 3-stage tour in Frankfurt am Main . The following year he won a stage of the Tour of Istria and was second overall and fourth in the International Peace Tour for Juniors. In addition, he decided a stage of the Trofeo Karlsberg for himself and took third place in the overall ranking.
2014 Kämna was in Swiss Nyon Europe Junior Champion in the time trial . That same week he won the national junior time trial title. In addition, he won the junior ranking of the Rad-Bundesliga . In the same year he won the gold medal at the world championships in the junior individual time trial.
In the elite
Team Stölting
In autumn 2014 it was announced that Kämna would be transferring to the Gelsenkirchen based Team Stölting for 2015 . This news led to heated discussions in Cottbus and the Brandenburg Cycling Association, as they failed to keep the rider in Brandenburg and to integrate him into the LKT Brandenburg team .
In 2015, Kämna became German U23 champions in the individual time trial . and U23 title holder at the German Mountain Championships . He won the overall ranking of the U23 Rad-Bundesliga . In September 2016 Lennard Kämna won the title of European Time Trial Champion in the U23 category at the European Road Championships .
Team Sunweb
For the 2017 season, Kämna switched to the UCI WorldTeam Sunweb and, at the age of 20, was the youngest rider to have participated in the UCI WorldTour . It started for the first time in a big tour, the Vuelta a España 2017 . In the individual time trial of the 16th stage, he finished eighth, but then had to give up the tour due to knee problems. A few weeks later he became world champion in the team time trial together with the drivers of the Sunweb team . In the road race of the U23 class, he won the silver medal in a two-man sprint behind his runaway Benoît Cosnefroy .
In the 2018 season, Kämna was unable to build on his successes due to illnesses and did not contest any more races after Milan-Sanremo before he and his team announced in June that he was taking a break from racing as a precautionary measure. He returned to the competitions at the Tour of Denmark in August , where he finished 17th overall. At the road world championships in the same year he was 14th in the U23 individual time trial.
In 2019, Lennard Kämna started the Tour de France for the first time and finished 40th in the overall standings. After attempting to break away on mountain stages , he was sixth in the 15th and fourth in the 18th stage .
Team Bora-hansgrohe
In 2020, Kämna switched to the Bora-hansgrohe team . In August of that year, he won a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné and finished eighth overall.
Honors
successes
- 2014
- one stage tour of Istria
- one stage Trofeo Karlsberg
- Overall ranking and one stage GP Rüebliland
- European Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
- German Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
- World Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
- 2015
- German Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
- a stage of the Giro della Valle d'Aosta
- German Champion - Mountain (U23)
- Overall ranking Rad-Bundesliga U23
- World Championship - Individual Time Trial (U23)
- 2016
- Young talent circuit des Ardennes
- European Champion (U23) - individual time trial
- 2017
- Hammer Chase Hammer Sportzone Limburg
- World champion - team time trial
- U23 World Championship - Road Race
2020
- a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | - |
Tour de France | - | - | 40 |
Vuelta a España | DNF | - | - |
Teams
- 2015 Team Stölting
- 2016 Stölting Service Group
- 2017 Team Sunweb
- 2018 Team Sunweb
- 2019 Team Sunweb
- 2020 Bora-hansgrohe
Web links
- Lennard Kämna in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Lennard Kämna in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Lennard Kämna in the rad-net.de database
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ North German stage wins on the tour? In: ndr.de. July 2, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Breakthrough for our cyclist ace Lennard Kämna: From Bremen to the Tour de France. In: bild.de. August 23, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
- ↑ So that young talents become elite drivers. In: rrg-bremen.de. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ The return of the bearer of hope. In: weser-kurier.de. September 24, 2018, accessed August 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Lausitz missed the world championship train. Lausitzer Rundschau, October 9, 2014, accessed on October 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Kämna: Successful high school graduate now also U23 time trial champion. radsport-News.com, June 26, 2015, accessed September 9, 2015 .
- ^ Dombrowski, Kämna and Adamietz German champions on the mountain. rad-net.de, September 6, 2015, accessed on September 9, 2015 .
- ↑ Bundesliga: Walscheid and Kasper win in Cottbus - Kämna and Zanner overall winners 2015. rad-net.de, September 13, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Lennard Kämna in an interview. rad-net.de, December 22, 2016, accessed on December 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Kämna leaves with knee problems. In: spox.com. September 6, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Kämna has to give up Vuelta, Degenkolb starts in Denmark. In: radsport-news.com. September 6, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Only Cosnefroy can still catch Kämna. In: radsport-news.com. September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .
- ^ "Precautionary measure" - Kämna takes a break from racing. In: radsport-news.com. June 28, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Kämna: As a reward, there is “a lot of chocolate” on the day off. In: radsport-news.com. July 21, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Quintana uses his altitude advantage to win solo in Valloire. In: radsport-news.com. July 25, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kämna, Lennard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1996 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | frond |