Italian cyclist (born 1996)
Filippo Ganna Full name Filippo Ganna Nickname Top Ganna[1] Born (1996-07-25 ) 25 July 1996 (age 27) Verbania , ItalyHeight 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[2] Weight 82 kg (181 lb)[3] Current team Ineos Grenadiers Disciplines Role Rider Rider type Time trialist (road) Pursuitist (track) 2012 Pedale Ossolano 2014 Aspiratori Otelli Castanese Verbania 2015 Viris Maserati–Sisal Matchpoint 2016 Team Colpack
2015 → Lampre–Merida (stagiaire ) 2017–2018 UAE Abu Dhabi 2019– Team Sky [4] [5]
Road
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
7 individual stages (2020 , 2021 , 2024 )
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2023 )
Stage races
Tour de Wallonie (2023 )
One-day races and Classics
World Time Trial Championships (2020 , 2021 )
National Time Trial Championships (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Track
Team pursuit, Olympic Games (2021 )
Individual pursuit, World Championships (2016 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2022 , 2023 )
Team pursuit, World Championships (2021 )
Hour record 56.792 km (8 October 2022)
Filippo Ganna (born 25 July 1996) is an Italian track and road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers .[6]
He is a record-breaking six-time world champion in the individual pursuit , winning a total of nine medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships , and part of the Olympic gold medal-winning team in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics . He also won the men's individual time trial at the 2020 and 2021 UCI Road World Championships , and four stages in the 2020 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2021 Giro d'Italia , setting the record for most consecutive time trials won at the Giro with five. He is the current world record holder in individual pursuit, team pursuit and of the hour record , which he unified with the best human effort since the distinction was first made in 1997.
Career
The son of former Italian Olympic sprint canoer Marco Ganna , Ganna emerged into the scene at the 2016 World Indoor Championships with an uncommon negative splits pursuit style of starting very slowly and falling behind, then winding up the speed in the second half to win. Ganna rode for Italian amateur team Team Colpack ,[7] before turning professional with UAE Abu Dhabi in 2017.[8] After two years with the team, he joined Team Sky ahead of the 2019 season.[9]
Ganna at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships Between November 2019 and February 2020, Ganna set a world record for the individual pursuit on three occasions, lowering the mark from over 4 minutes, 5 seconds to a time of 4 minutes, 1.934 seconds at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin.[10] [11]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics held at Tokyo in 2021, together with Simone Consonni , Francesco Lamon and Jonathan Milan , he won the gold medal in the team pursuit. The team set a new world record two times, both in the 3rd battery round against New Zealand and in the final against Denmark , at 3:42.02. Italy had set the new Olympic record in the qualifications, which Denmark had beat in the next race.
On 8 October 2022, Ganna set a new hour record of 56.792 kilometres (35.289 mi) at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen , Switzerland, beating the previous record of 55.548 kilometres (34.516 mi) set by Daniel Bigham on 19 August.[12] [13]
Olympic Cycling Champions in Men's Team Pursuit
1908 : Jones , Kingsbury , Meredith , Payne (GBR )
1920 : Carli , Ferrario , Giorgetti , Magnani (ITA )
1924 : De Martino , Dinale , Menegazzi , Zucchetti (ITA )
1928 : Facciani , Gaioni , Lusiani , Tasselli (ITA )
1932 : Cimatti , Pedretti , Ghilardi , Borsari (ITA )
1936 : Charpentier , Goujon , Lapébie , Le Nizerhy (FRA )
1948 : Adam , Blusson , Coste , Decanali (FRA )
1952 : Campana , De Rossi , Messina , Morettini (ITA )
1956 : Domenicali , Faggin , Gandini , Gasparella , Pizzali (ITA )
1960 : Arienti , Testa , Vallotto , Vigna (ITA )
1964 : Claesges , Henrichs , Link , Streng (EUA )
1968 : Frey , Asmussen , Lyngemark , Olsen (DEN )
1972 : Schumacher , Colombo , Haritz , Hempel (FRG )
1976 : Vonhof , Braun , Lutz , Schumacher (FRG )
1980 : Manakov , Movchan , Osokin , Petrakov , Krasnov (URS )
1984 : Grenda , Nichols , Turtur , Woods (AUS )
1988 : Ekimov , Kasputis , Nelyubin , Umaras (URS )
1992 : Steinweg , Walzer , Fulst , Glöckner , Lehmann (GER )
1996 : Capelle , Ermenault , Monin , Moreau (FRA )
2000 : Fulst , Bartko , Becke , Lehmann , Pollack (GER )
2004 : Brown , Lancaster , McGee , Roberts (AUS )
2008 : Clancy , Manning , Thomas , Wiggins (GBR )
2012 : Clancy , Thomas , Burke , Kennaugh (GBR )
2016 : Clancy , Burke , Doull , Wiggins (GBR )
2020 : Consonni , Ganna , Lamon , Milan (ITA )
UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's individual pursuit
UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's team pursuit
1990s
1993: Australia, Brett Aitken , Stuart O'Grady , Billy Shearsby , Tim O'Shannessey
1994: Germany, Guido Fulst , Andreas Bach , Jens Lehmann , Danilo Hondo
1995: Australia, Bradley McGee , Stuart O'Grady , Rodney McGee , Tim O'Shannessey
1996: Italy, Adler Capelli , Cristiano Citton , Andrea Collinelli , Mauro Trentini
1997: Italy, Cristiano Citton , Mario Benetton , Adler Capelli , Andrea Collinelli
1998: Ukraine, Alexander Symonenko , Sergiy Matveyev , Oleksandr Fedenko , Oleksandr Klymenko
1999: Germany, Robert Bartko , Jens Lehmann , Daniel Becke , Guido Fulst
2000s
2000: Germany, Guido Fulst , Sebastian Siedler , Daniel Becke , Jens Lehmann
2001: Ukraine, Alexander Symonenko , Serhii Cherniavskyi , Lyubomyr Polatayko , Oleksandr Fedenko
2002: Australia, Peter Dawson , Brett Lancaster , Stephen Wooldridge , Luke Roberts
2003: Australia, Graeme Brown , Peter Dawson , Brett Lancaster , Luke Roberts
2004: Australia, Ashley Hutchinson , Luke Roberts , Peter Dawson , Stephen Wooldridge
2005: Great Britain, Steve Cummings , Rob Hayles , Paul Manning , Chris Newton
2006: Australia, Peter Dawson , Matthew Goss , Mark Jamieson , Stephen Wooldridge
2007 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Geraint Thomas , Paul Manning , Bradley Wiggins
2008 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Geraint Thomas , Paul Manning , Bradley Wiggins
2009 : Denmark, Casper Jørgensen , Jens-Erik Madsen , Michael Færk Christensen , Alex Rasmussen , Michael Mørkøv
2010s
2010 : Australia, Jack Bobridge , Rohan Dennis , Michael Hepburn , Cameron Meyer
2011 : Australia, Jack Bobridge , Rohan Dennis , Michael Hepburn , Luke Durbridge
2012 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Peter Kennaugh , Steven Burke , Geraint Thomas , Andy Tennant
2013 : Australia, Glenn O'Shea , Alex Edmondson , Mitchell Mulhern , Alexander Morgan
2014 : Australia, Glenn O'Shea , Alex Edmondson , Luke Davison , Miles Scotson
2015 : New Zealand, Pieter Bulling , Dylan Kennett , Alex Frame , Marc Ryan
2016 : Australia, Sam Welsford , Michael Hepburn , Callum Scotson , Miles Scotson , Alexander Porter , Luke Davison
2017 : Australia, Sam Welsford , Cameron Meyer , Alexander Porter , Nick Yallouris , Kelland O'Brien , Rohan Wight
2018 : Great Britain, Ed Clancy , Kian Emadi , Ethan Hayter , Charlie Tanfield
2019 : Australia, Sam Welsford , Leigh Howard , Alexander Porter , Cameron Scott , Kelland O'Brien
2020s
2020 : Denmark, Lasse Norman Hansen , Julius Johansen , Frederik Rodenberg , Rasmus Pedersen
2021 : Italy, Liam Bertazzo , Simone Consonni , Filippo Ganna , Jonathan Milan , Francesco Lamon
2022 : Great Britain, Ethan Hayter , Oliver Wood , Ethan Vernon , Daniel Bigham
2023 : Denmark, Niklas Larsen , Carl-Frederik Bévort , Lasse Norman Leth , Rasmus Pedersen , Frederik Rodenberg
Riders in italics took part in the qualifying rounds.
UCI Road World Champions – Men's time trial
UEC European Track Champions – Men’s team pursuit
2010 : Great Britain : (Burke , Clancy , Queally , Tennant )
2011 : Great Britain : (Burke , Clancy , Kennaugh , Tennant )
2012 : Russia : (Ershov , Markov , Serov , Kaykov )
2013 : Great Britain : (Burke , Clancy , Doull , Tennant )
2014 : Great Britain : (Dibben , Clancy , Doull , Tennant )
2015 : Great Britain : (Dibben , Wiggins , Doull , Tennant , Burke , Gibson )
2016 : France : (Denis , Ermenault , Maitre , Chavanel , Thomas )
2017 : France : (Denis , Ermenault , Maitre , Pijourlet )
2018 : Italy : (Viviani , Bertazzo , Ganna , Lamon )
2019 : Denmark : (LN Hansen , Pedersen , Madsen , Johansen )
2020 : Russia : (Dubchenko , Gonov , Bersenev , Evtushenko )
2021 : Denmark : (Malmberg , Pedersen , T Hansen , Bévort )
2022 : France : (Denis , Lafargue , Tabellion , Thomas , Boudat )
2023 : Italy : (Ganna , Lamon ), Milan , Moro , Consonni )
2024 : Great Britain : (Bigham , Hayter , C Tanfield , Vernon , Wood )
Riders in italics rode in heats only
UEC European Track Champions – Men's individual pursuit
Riders on Ineos Grenadiers