Filippo Ganna
Italian cyclist (born 1996) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
Summarize
Perspective
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]
On 19 February 2025, Ganna took part in the first stage of the 2025 Volta ao Algarve. Ganna raised his arms to celebrate the win, but due to multiple riders going the wrong way at the finish, the stage was cancelled with no winner declared.[14]
Major results
Road
- 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
- 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a San Juan
- 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
- 2025 (1)
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 3rd E3 Saxo Classic
- 8th Tour of Flanders
General classification results timeline
| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2017 | 2028 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia |
— | — | — | 61 | 118 | — | DNF | 101 | — |
 Tour de France |
— | — | — | — | — | 95 | — | — | |
 Vuelta a España |
— | — | — | — | — | — | 104 | — | |
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||
| Race | 2017 | 2028 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Paris–Nice |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tirreno–Adriatico |
148 | 132 | 103 | 116 | 70 | 71 | 76 | 88 | 2 |
 Volta a Catalunya |
— | — | — | NH | — | — | — | — | |
| Tour of the Basque Country |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Tour de Romandie |
— | — | 84 | 80 | — | — | — | ||
 Critérium du Dauphiné |
— | — | — | — | — | 82 | — | — | |
| Tour de Suisse |
— | DNF | — | NH | — | — | — | — | |
Monuments results timeline
| Monument | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | 161 | 114 | 74 | 64 | 51 | 2 | 40 | 2 |
| Tour of Flanders | DNF | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | 8 |
| Paris–Roubaix | OTL | DNF | — | — | 35 | 6 | — | |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | |||||||
| Giro di Lombardia | ||||||||
Major championships results timeline
| Event | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Olympic Games |
Road race | Not held | — | Not held | — | NH | ||||
| Time trial | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
 World Championships |
Road race | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Time trial | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | ||
 European Championships |
Road race | DNF | — | — | — | DNF | 61 | 37 | — | |
| Time trial | 9 | 12 | 6 | — | 2 | 3 | — | — | ||
 National Championships |
Road race | DNF | DNF | 38 | — | — | — | 11 | 4 | |
| Time trial | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| NH | Not Held |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
Track
- 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
| 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
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External links
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