Rider Profile
Stefan Kung
Groupama-FDJ
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Groupama-FDJ
- 2023 - Groupama-FDJ
- 2022 - Groupama-FDJ
- 2021 - Groupama-FDJ
- 2020 - Groupama-FDJ
- 2019 - Groupama-FDJ
- 2018 - BMC Racing Team
- 2017 - BMC Racing Team
- 2016 - BMC Racing Team
- 2015 - BMC Racing Team
Biography:
Swiss cyclist Stefan Küng has made an impact as a time trial specialist when he was a teenager, winning a junior national title in the ITT at the age of 17. Two years later he landed with the BMC Development Team and won the U23 Swiss ITT championship in 2013, then both the U23 European ITT and road titles in 2014.
Born on November 16, 1993, he focused on road racing most of his developing years, but also races on the track, winning the Individual Pursuit world title in 2015.
That 2015 saw him make the leap to the WorldTour with BMC Racing, where he raced for four seasons, earning his first rainbow stripes as part of the Team Time Trial victory at the World Championships in Richmond. He won his first elite time trial victories at Swiss Nationals in 2017 and 2018, and wore the national jersey for a second-place finish on a stage 1 ITT at the 2017 Tour de France.
By 2019 Küng moved to Groupama-FDJ, where he won three more Swiss titles in the time trial (2019, 2020, 2021) and added the road race victory in 2020. That same year he earned the gold medal at the European Championships and the bronze medal at the World Championships in the ITT. In 2021 he finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympic Games in the race against the clock.
By 2022 Küng was making his mark on the road beyond his time trial specialty. That year he finished one spot off the podium at the Tour de France on a 192km stage from Bourg d’Oisans to Saint-Etienne and was third at Paris-Roubaix and E3 Saxo Bank Classic. In 2023 he was fifth in the World Championships road race and was fifth at Paris-Roubaix and sixth at Tour of Flanders.
Through nine seasons on the WorldTour level, Küng has some big one-day race wins and podiums, but an individual win at a Grand Tour still evades him.
Key Results
2023
🥇 World Championships mixed relay
🥇 One stage at Tour de Suisse
🥇 One stage at Volta ao Algarve
2022
🥇 Chrono des Nations
🥇 World Championships mixed relay
🥇 One stage and GC at Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine
🥈 Swiss National Championships ITT
🥈 European Championships ITT
🥈 World Championships ITT
🥉 Paris-Roubaix
2021
🥇 Chrono des Nations
🥇 European Championships ITT
🥇 Swiss National Championships ITT
🥇 One stage Tour de Suisse
🥇 One stage and GC at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
🥈 One stage at Tour de France
2020
🥇 Swiss National Championships ITT
🥇 Swiss National Championships road race
🥇 European Championships ITT
🥉 World Championships ITT
2019
🥇 Tour du Doubs
🥇 Swiss National Championships ITT
🥇 One stage at Tour de Romandie
🥉 World Championships road race
2018
🥇 Swiss National Championships ITT
2017
🥇Swiss National Championships ITT
🥇One stage at Tour de Romandie
🥈 Swiss National Championships road race
🥈 Two stages at Tour de Suisse
🥈 One stage at Tour de France
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