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 56.792 km at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland, beating the previous record of 55.548 km set by Daniel Bigham on 19 August.

Road

 * 2012
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg Time trial, National Cadet Championships


 * 2013
 * 3rd Time trial, National Junior Championships


 * 2014
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg 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 MaillotItalia.svg Time trial, National Under-23 Championships
 * 1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
 * 1st GP Laguna
 * UEC European Under-23 Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg 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 Jersey green.svg Young rider classification


 * 2019 (3 pro wins)
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg Time trial, National Championships
 * 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tour de la Provence
 * 1st Stage 6 (ITT) BinckBank Tour
 * 2nd Chrono des Nations
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Time trial, UCI World Championships
 * 5th Coppa Sabatini
 * 6th Time trial, UEC European Championships


 * 2020 (7)
 * 1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial, UCI World Championships
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg Time trial, National Championships
 * Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stages 1 (ITT), 5, 14 (ITT) & 21 (ITT)
 * Held Jersey pink.svg & Jersey white.svg after Stages 1–2
 * Held Jersey violet.svg after Stage 1
 * Held MaillotAzul.PNG after Stages 5–8
 * 1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 2nd Overall Vuelta a San Juan


 * 2021 (6)
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team relay
 * UEC European Championships
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team relay
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Time trial
 * Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 21 (ITT)
 * Held Jersey pink.svg & Jersey white.svg after Stages 1–3
 * Held Jersey violet.svg 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 MaillotItalia.svg 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 Silver medal uci.svg Team relay
 * 7th Time trial
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Time trial, UEC European Championships


 * 2023 (6)
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg Time trial, National Championships
 * 1st Jersey orange.svg 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 Silver medal uci.svg Time trial, UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Milan–San Remo
 * 4th Gran Piemonte
 * 6th Paris–Roubaix
 * 10th E3 Saxo Classic


 * 2024 (3)
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg Time trial
 * 4th Road race
 * 1st Stage 14 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stage 4 Tour of Austria

Track

 * 2014
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg Individual pursuit, National Junior Championships


 * 2015
 * 1st MaillotItalia.svg Individual pursuit, National Championships


 * 2016
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit, UCI World Championships
 * UEC European Under-23 Championships
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit
 * UEC European Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit


 * 2017
 * UEC European Championships
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit
 * 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Pruszków
 * UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit


 * 2018
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships


 * 2019
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit, UCI World Championships
 * 1st Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships


 * 2020
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit


 * 2021
 * 1st Gold medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Individual pursuit


 * 2022
 * Hour record: Sport records icon WR.svg 56.792 km
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit


 * 2023
 * UCI World Championships
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships