Filippo Ganna

Filippo Ganna (born 25 July 1996) is an Italian track and road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
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 , before turning professional with in 2017. After two years with the team, he joined 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 at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, beating the previous record of set by Daniel Bigham on 19 August.
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
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Monuments results timeline
Major championships results timeline
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
World records
References
External links
1996 births
21st-century Italian people
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Piedmont
European Championships (multi-sport event) gold medalists
Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners
Italian Vuelta a España stage winners
Italian male cyclists
Italian track cyclists
Living people
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Italy
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in cycling
People from Verbania
Sportspeople from the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)