Filippo Ganna
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 was the previous world record holder in individual pursuit and he is the current record holder of the hour record, which he unified with the best human effort since the distinction was first made in 1997.
Career
[edit]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]
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]
Major results
[edit]Road
[edit]- 2012
- 1st
Time trial, National Cadet Championships
- 2013
- 3rd Time trial, National Junior Championships
- 2014
- 1st
- 1st Chrono des Nations Juniors
- 1st Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
- 4th Time trial, UCI World Junior Championships
- 4th Time trial, UEC European Junior Championships
- 2015
- 1st Chrono Champenois
- 2016
- 1st
- 1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
- 1st GP Laguna
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 2nd
Time trial
- 6th Road race
- 2nd
- 2nd Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano
- 2017
- 9th Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 2018
- 2nd Time trial, National Championships
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a San Juan
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2019 (3 pro wins)
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tour de la Provence
- 1st Stage 6 (ITT) BinckBank Tour
- 2nd Chrono des Nations
- 3rd
Time trial, UCI World Championships
- 5th Coppa Sabatini
- 6th Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 2020 (7)
- 1st
Time trial, UCI World Championships
- 1st
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a San Juan
- 2021 (6)
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
- 3rd
- 1st
- UEC European Championships
- 1st
Team relay
- 2nd
- 1st
- Giro d'Italia
- Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stages 4 & 5 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT) UAE Tour
- 4th Time trial, National Championships
- 5th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 2022 (6)
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT) Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Prologue Deutschland Tour
- 1st Prologue Tour de la Provence
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd
Team relay
- 7th Time trial
- 2nd
- 3rd
Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 2023 (6)
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1st Stages 1 & 4 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 10 (ITT) Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a San Juan
- 2nd
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 4th Gran Piemonte
- 6th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th E3 Saxo Classic
- 2024 (3)
- National Championships
- 1st
- 4th Road race
- 1st
- 1st Stage 14 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Austria
- 2nd
Time trial, Olympic Games
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 2nd
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
61 | 118 | — | DNF | 101 |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | 95 | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | — | — | 104 | — |
Monuments results timeline
[edit]| Monument | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | 161 | 114 | 74 | 64 | 51 | 2 | 40 |
| Tour of Flanders | DNF | 98 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | OTL | DNF | — | — | 35 | 6 | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | ||||||
| Giro di Lombardia | |||||||
Major championships results timeline
[edit]| Event | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Olympic Games
|
Road race | Not held | — | Not held | — | ||||
| Time trial | 5 | 2 | |||||||
 World Championships
|
Road race | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Time trial | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | |
 European Championships
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Road race | DNF | — | — | — | DNF | 61 | 37 | — |
| Time trial | 9 | 12 | 6 | — | 2 | 3 | — | — | |
 National Championships
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Road race | DNF | DNF | 38 | — | — | — | 11 | 4 |
| Time trial | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Track
[edit]- 2014
- 1st
- 2015
- 1st
- 2016
- 1st
Individual pursuit, UCI World Championships
- UEC European Under-23 Championships
- 1st
- 2nd
- 1st
- UEC European Championships
- 2nd
- 2nd
- 2nd
- 2017
- UEC European Championships
- 1st
- 2nd
- 1st
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Pruszków
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 2nd
- 2018
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
- 3rd
- 1st
- 1st
- 2019
- 1st
- 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong
- 2nd
- 2020
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
- 3rd
- 1st
- 2021
- 1st
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
- 3rd
- 1st
- 2022
- Hour record:
56.792 km
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
- 2nd
- 1st
- 2023
- UCI World Championships
- 1st
- 2nd
- 1st
- 1st
- 2024
- 3rd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games
World records
[edit]| Date | Time | Meet | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2019 | 4:04.252 | UCI Track Cycling World Cup | Individual Pursuit | Minsk,  Belarus
|
| 3 November 2019 | 4:02.647 | UCI Track Cycling World Cup | Individual Pursuit | Minsk, Belarus
|
| 28 February 2020 | 4:01.934 | UCI Track Cycling World Cup | Individual Pursuit | Berlin,  Germany
|
| 3 August 2021 | 3:42.307 | 2020 Olympics | Team Pursuit (with Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon & Jonathan Milan) |
Izu,  Japan
|
| 4 August 2021 | 3:42.032 | 2020 Olympics | Team Pursuit (with Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon & Jonathan Milan) |
Izu, Japan
|
| 14 October 2022 | 3:59.636 | UCI Track Cycling World Championships | Individual Pursuit | Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,  France
|
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Branquinho, Lance (2 October 2020). "Filippo Ganna's World Champion Pinarello Bolide TT bike". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ "Filippo Ganna – Team INEOS". Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Filippo Ganna". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ Scognamiglio, Ciro (14 February 2016). "Che bravo Ganna: vince in Croazia". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ^ "Saronni reveals how he secured UAE Abu Dhabi's WorldTour licence". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 26 December 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
I'm pleased that we'll still important for Italian cycling and have some of the best young Italian riders on our roster such as Ganna, Consonni, Ravasi and Troia," Saronni explained.
- ^ "Italy's Filippo Ganna joins Team Sky for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ^ Smythe, Simon (16 February 2020). "Four, the record: Inside the race to smash the Individual Pursuit four-minute barrier". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ Long, Jonny (28 February 2020). "Filippo Ganna breaks own individual pursuit world record at Berlin Track World Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
- ^ "Filippo Ganna smashes cycling's hour world record". BBC. 8 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ "Filippo Ganna: Ineos Grenadiers rider obliterates Hour Record with stunning showing in Grenchen, Switzerland". Eurosport. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
External links
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Filippo Ganna.
- Filippo Ganna at UCI
- Filippo Ganna at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Filippo Ganna at ProCyclingStats
- Filippo Ganna at Cycling Quotient
- Filippo Ganna at CycleBase
- Filippo Ganna at Olympics.com
- Filippo Ganna at Olympedia
- Filippo Ganna at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
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