# Filippo Ganna

Filippo Ganna (born 25 July 1996) is an Italian track and road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. 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 Team Colpack, before turning professional with UAE Abu Dhabi in 2017. After two years with the team, he joined Team Sky ahead of the 2019 season.
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. 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.
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.

## 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 Time trial, UCI World Championships
    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 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 relay

#### 2025 (1)

    2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
       1st Stage 1 (ITT)

#### 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 | — | — | — | NH | — | — | — | — | |
| Tour de Romandie | — | — | 84 | NH | 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 | |
| Tour of Flanders | DNF | 98 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | OTL | DNF | — | — | 35 | 6 | — | |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |
| Giro di Lombardia | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career | Has not contested during his career |

#### Major championships results timeline

| Event | Event | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Olympic Games | Road race | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | — | Not held | Not held | — | NH |
| Olympic Games | Time trial | Not held | Not held | Not held | Not held | 5 | Not held | Not held | 2 | NH |
| World Championships | Road race | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| World Championships | Time trial | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | |
| European Championships | Road race | DNF | — | — | — | DNF | 61 | 37 | — | |
| European Championships | Time trial | 9 | 12 | 6 | — | 2 | 3 | — | — | |
| National Championships | Road race | DNF | DNF | 38 | — | — | — | 11 | 4 | |
| National Championships | Time trial | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| NH | Not Held |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| DSQ | Disqualified |

### 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 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 |