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Lara Marie Lessmann (born 10 February 2000) is a German
Freestyle BMX Freestyle BMX is bicycle motocross stunt riding on BMX bikes. It is an extreme sport descended from BMX racing that consists of five disciplines: street, park, vert, trails, and flatland. In June 2017, the International Olympic Committee announced t ...
rider based in
Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
. Originally from
Flensburg Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...
in the north German state of
Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...
, she moved to the German capital because of the better training conditions in Berlin's Mellowpark. She finished second at the 2017 UCI Freestyle BMX World Championships and won the gold medal at the
2018 Youth Olympic Games The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos OlĂ­mpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international multi-sport event, sports, cultural, and edu ...
in Argentina in the mixed team event with Evan Brandes. She also won rounds in Croatia and China at the UCI World Cup Series.


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Living people 2000 births BMX riders German female cyclists Cyclists from Berlin Cyclists at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Youth Olympic gold medalists for Germany Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Germany 21st-century German women European Games competitors for Germany Cyclists at the 2023 European Games {{Germany-cycling-bio-stub