Leah Kirchmann

Leah Kirchmann

Kirchmann at the 2018 Women's Tour de Yorkshire
Personal information
Born	(1990-06-30) 30 June 1990 (age 35) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Height	166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
2011	Colavita–Forno d'Asolo [1]
2012–2015	Optum Pro Cycling [2]
2016–2022	Team Liv–Plantur [3] [4]
Major wins
2016 Giro d'Italia prologue victory 2017 TTT World Champion 10x Canadian National Champion
Medal record Women's road bicycle racing Representing   Canada Pan American Championships 2012 Mar del Plata Road race

Leah Kirchmann (born 30 June 1990) is a Canadian racing cyclist. She competed for Team Canada at the Rio 2016, and Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games in the sport of road cycling. ^[5] In 2017, she won the Team-Time-Trial World Championships with Team Sunweb in Bergen, Norway. ^[6] At the 2014 Global Relay Canadian Road Championships, held in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, she won the road race, time trial and the criterium, becoming the first woman to win all three titles in the same year. ^{[7] [8]}

Career

Kirchmann's first sport was cross-country skiing. She continued to compete as a skier until about the age of 18. Kirchmann originally started mountain biking as summer training for ski racing. She turned professional in 2011 with the Colavita–Forno d'Asolo team. ^[1] When the team dissolved at the end of 2011, Kirchmann followed director Rachel Heal to the new Optum Pro Cycling team in 2012. ^[2] Kirchmann signed for Team Liv–Plantur on 8 October 2015 for the 2016 season, and remained with the team (Team Sunweb / Team DSM) until 2022. ^{[9] [10]}

In June 2016, she was officially named in Canada's 2016 Olympic team. ^[11] She also qualified to represent Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics. ^[12]

In August 2022, Kirchmann announced that she would retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2022 season. ^[13] However, in December 2022, it was announced that Kirchmann would form part of the roster for the Denver Disruptors, for the inaugural season of the National Cycling League in 2023. ^[14]

Major results

Source: ^[15]

2006

1st Cross-country, National Junior Mountain Bike Championships

2009

1st Criterium, Canada Summer Games

2010

National Road Championships

1st Criterium

1st Under-23 road race

6th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

2011

1st Criterium, National Road Championships

1st Overall Tour of Elk Grove

Nature Valley Grand Prix

1st Mountains classification

1st Sprints classification

1st Stage 5

4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

10th Road race, Pan American Road Championships

2012

1st Sprints classification, Energiewacht Tour

2nd Road race, Pan American Road Championships

4th Liberty Classic

9th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche

1st Young rider classification

2013

National Road Championships

1st Criterium

2nd Road race

1st White Spot / Delta Road Race

2014

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

1st Road race

1st Criterium

1st White Spot / Delta Road Race

San Dimas Stage Race

1st Sprints classification

1st Young rider classification

1st Stage 3

2nd Chrono Gatineau

3rd Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic

1st Points classification

1st Stages 3 & 4

3rd La Course by Le Tour de France

4th EPZ Omloop van Borsele

6th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour

7th Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau

8th Road race, Commonwealth Games

2015

National Road Championships

2nd Road race

3rd Time trial

3rd Criterium

2nd Overall Tour of California

1st Points classification

1st Stages 2 & 3

2nd White Spot / Delta Road Race

4th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race

1st Stage 2

6th Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau

7th Overall San Dimas Stage Race

7th Overall The Women's Tour

7th Philadelphia Cycling Classic

8th Overall Tour of the Gila

2016

1st Drentse Acht van Westerveld

2nd Omloop van het Hageland

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Overall Tour of Chongming Island

3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

3rd RideLondon Grand Prix

4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

6th Overall The Women's Tour

6th Chrono Gatineau

6th GP de Plouay

7th Gent–Wevelgem

8th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile

1st Prologue

10th Overall Holland Ladies Tour

10th Strade Bianche

10th Ronde van Drenthe

2017

1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships

1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Crescent Vårgårda UCI Women's WorldTour

4th Overall The Women's Tour

4th White Spot / Delta Road Race

9th Chrono Gatineau

9th Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta

2018

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

5th Road race

1st Team time trial, Ladies Tour of Norway

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro Rosa

2nd Brabantse Pijl

2nd Crescent Vårgårda TTT

UCI Road World Championships

3rd Team time trial

4th Time trial

4th Overall Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

5th Overall Holland Ladies Tour

2019

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

2nd Road race

1st Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau

2nd Chrono Gatineau

2nd La Course by Le Tour de France

3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Norway

3rd Omloop van het Hageland

3rd Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT

6th Overall The Women's Tour

8th Brabantse Pijl

10th Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden

2020

5th Overall Challenge by La Vuelta

5th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

6th Overall Women's Tour Down Under

1st Sprints classification

9th Race Torquay

2021

2nd Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs

6th Overall The Women's Tour

2022

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

References

1. Malach, Pat (21 February 2013). "Kirchmann thinking big in third season with Optum". cyclingnews.com . Retrieved 3 August 2014.
2. Weislo, Laura (31 January 2012). "Colavita riders find reprieve in Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies". cyclingnews.com . Retrieved 3 August 2014.
3. "Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
4. "Team DSM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 14 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
5. "Leah Kirchmann". M2M Ride. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
6. Cycling News (17 September 2017). "UCI Road World Championships 2017: Team Time Trial - Elite Women Results | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
7. "Leah Kirchmann sweeps Canadian Road Championships in historic hat trick". Optum–Kelly Benefit Strategies . 30 June 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
8. "Women's news shorts: Hosking and Kirchmann ready for Qatar, Matrix signs Trott". Cycling News. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
9. Powlison, Spencer (8 October 2015). "Liv-Plantur signs Canadian Leah Kirchmann". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
10. "Leah Kirchmann". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
11. Tozer, Jamie (29 June 2016). "Returning Olympians highlight Canada's cycling team". www.olympic.ca. Canadian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 29 June 2016.
12. "Leah Kirchmann". Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
13. Frattini, Kirsten (29 August 2022). "Leah Kirchmann ends 12-year pro cycling career". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc . Retrieved 1 September 2022.
14. Tyson, Jackie (22 December 2022). "Miami Nights and Denver Disruptors launched for 2023 National Cycling League". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc . Retrieved 22 January 2023.
15. "Leah Kirchmann". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 22 January 2023.

External links

• Leah Kirchmann at UCI
• Leah Kirchmann at Cycling Archives ( archive )
• Leah Kirchmann at ProCyclingStats
• Leah Kirchmann at CQ Ranking
• Leah Kirchmann at CycleBase
• Leah Kirchmann at Olympedia
• Leah Kirchmann at Olympics.com
• Leah Kirchmann at Team Canada
• Leah Kirchmann at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)