Lennard Kämna

Lennard Kämna
	Lennard Kämna (2018)
To person
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 ; world champion team time trial 2017
	Last updated: August 15, 2020

Kämna at the Tour de France 2019

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 .