Filippo Ganna

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.

Filippo Ganna

Ganna at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Filippo Ganna
Nickname	Top Ganna[1]
Born	(1996-07-25) 25 July 1996 (age 29) Verbania, Italy
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[2]
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)[3]
Team information
Current team	Ineos Grenadiers
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time trialist (road) Pursuitist (track)
Amateur teams
2012	Pedale Ossolano
2014	Aspiratori Otelli Castanese Verbania
2015	Viris Maserati–Sisal Matchpoint
2016	Team Colpack
Professional teams
2015	→ Lampre–Merida (stagiaire)
2017–2018	UAE Abu Dhabi
2019–	Team Sky[4][5]
Major wins
Road Grand 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, 2025) 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)
Medal record Representing  Italy Men's track cycling Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit 2024 Paris Team pursuit World Championships 2016 London Individual pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit 2019 Pruszków Individual pursuit 2020 Berlin Individual pursuit 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Individual pursuit 2023 Glasgow Individual pursuit 2017 Hong Kong Individual pursuit 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit 2023 Glasgow Team pursuit 2017 Hong Kong Team pursuit 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit 2020 Berlin Team pursuit 2021 Roubaix Individual pursuit European Championships 2017 Berlin Individual pursuit 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit 2016 Yvelines Individual pursuit 2016 Yvelines Team pursuit 2017 Berlin Team pursuit 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit Men's road bicycle racing Olympic Games 2024 Paris Time trial World Championships 2020 Imola Time trial 2021 Flanders Time trial 2022 Wollongong Mixed team relay 2023 Stirling Time trial 2024 Zurich Time trial 2019 Yorkshire Time trial 2021 Flanders Mixed team relay 2024 Zurich Mixed team relay European Championships 2021 Trentino Mixed team relay 2021 Trentino Time trial 2022 Munich Time trial

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,^[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]

Ganna at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships

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 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 (2)

1st Time trial, National Championships

2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1st Stage 1 (ITT)

2nd Milan–San Remo

3rd E3 Saxo Classic

4th Overall Tour of Belgium

8th Tour of Flanders

General classification results timeline

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	61	118	—	DNF	101	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	95	—	—	DNF
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	—	13
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	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

See also

• List of world records in track cycling