Filippo Ganna Explained
| Filippo Ganna |
| Fullname: | Filippo Ganna |
| Nickname: | Top Ganna[1] |
| Birth Date: | 1996 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Verbania, Italy |
| Height: | 1.93 m[2] |
| Weight: | 82 kg[3] |
| Role: | Rider |
| Amateuryears1: | 2012 |
| Amateurteam1: | Pedale Ossolano |
| Amateuryears2: | 2014 |
| Amateurteam2: | Aspiratori Otelli Castanese Verbania |
| Amateuryears3: | 2015 |
| Amateurteam3: | Viris Maserati–Sisal Matchpoint |
| Amateuryears4: | 2016 |
| Proyears1: | 2015 |
| Proteam1: | → (stagiaire) |
| Proyears2: | 2017–2018 |
| Proyears3: | 2019– |
| Proteam3: | [4] [5] |
| Majorwins: |
- RoadGrand 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
Olympic Games
Team pursuit (2021)
World Championships
Individual pursuit (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023)
Team pursuit (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 .[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
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,[7] before turning professional with in 2017.[8] After two years with the team, he joined 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 at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, beating the previous record of set by Daniel Bigham on 19 August.[12] [13]
Major results
Road
- 2012
1st Time trial, National Cadet Championships
- 2013
3rd Time trial, National Junior Championships
- 2014
1st Time trial, National Junior Championships
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 Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
1st GP Laguna
UEC European Under-23 Championships
2nd Time trial
6th Road race
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
- 2019 (3 pro wins)
1st Time trial, National Championships
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 Time trial, National Championships
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 1 (ITT), 5, 14 (ITT) & 21 (ITT)
Held & after Stages 1–2
Held after Stage 1
Held after Stages 5–8
1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
2nd Overall Vuelta a San Juan
- 2021 (6)
UCI World Championships
1st Time trial
3rd Team relay
UEC European Championships
1st Team relay
2nd Time trial
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 21 (ITT)
Held & after Stages 1–3
Held after Stage 1
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 Time trial, National Championships
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
3rd Time trial, UEC European Championships
- 2023 (6)
1st Time trial, National Championships
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 Time trial, UCI World Championships
2nd Milan–San Remo
4th Gran Piemonte
6th Paris–Roubaix
10th E3 Saxo Classic
- 2024 (3)
National Championships
1st Time trial
4th Road race
1st Stage 14 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 4 Tour of Austria
2nd Time trial, Olympic Games
UCI World Championships
2nd Time trial
3rd Team relayGrand Tour general classification results timeline
Monuments results timeline
Major championships results timeline
Legend| — | Did not compete |
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Track
- 2014
1st Individual pursuit, National Junior Championships
- 2015
1st Individual pursuit, National Championships
- 2016
1st Individual pursuit, UCI World Championships
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
UEC European Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
- 2017
UEC European Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Pruszków
UCI World Championships
2nd Individual pursuit
3rd Team pursuit
- 2018
UCI World Championships
1st Individual pursuit
3rd Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2019
1st Individual pursuit, UCI World Championships
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong
2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2020
UCI World Championships
1st Individual pursuit
3rd Team pursuit
- 2021
1st Team pursuit, Olympic Games
UCI World Championships
1st Team pursuit
- 3rd Individual pursuit 2022
Hour record: 56.792 km
UCI World Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
- 2023
UCI World Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2024
3rd Team pursuit, Olympic GamesWorld records
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Filippo Ganna's World Champion Pinarello Bolide TT bike . Branquinho . Lance . 2 October 2020 . . 17 October 2020.
- Web site: Filippo Ganna – Team INEOS. 30 October 2020.
- Web site: Filippo Ganna. ProCyclingStats. 30 October 2020.
- Web site: Team Sky. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 5 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190105011120/http://www.cyclingnews.com/teams/2019/team-sky/. 5 January 2019.
- Web site: Team Ineos. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 2 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200102035953/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/13993/1001552/260. 2 January 2020.
- Web site: Ineos Grenadiers. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 2 January 2021. https://archive.today/20210102023102/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15241/1001552/279. 2 January 2021.
- News: Che bravo Ganna: vince in Croazia. Ciro. Scognamiglio. La Gazzetta dello Sport. 14 February 2016. 14 February 2016. it.
- News: Saronni reveals how he secured UAE Abu Dhabi's WorldTour licence. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 26 December 2016. 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..
- News: Italy's Filippo Ganna joins Team Sky for 2019. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 19 October 2018. 19 October 2018.
- News: Four, the record: Inside the race to smash the Individual Pursuit four-minute barrier. Simon. Smythe. Cycling Weekly. 16 February 2020. 28 August 2020.
- News: Filippo Ganna breaks own individual pursuit world record at Berlin Track World Championships. Jonny. Long. Cycling Weekly. 28 February 2020. 28 August 2020.
- News: Filippo Ganna smashes cycling's hour world record . . 8 October 2022 . 9 October 2022.
- News: Filippo Ganna: Ineos Grenadiers rider obliterates Hour Record with stunning showing in Grenchen, Switzerland . . 9 October 2022 . 9 October 2022.
