Filippo Ganna

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Filippo Ganna Road cycling
Ganna as world champion 2020 in the single pursuit
Ganna as world champion 2020
in the single pursuit
To person
Nickname Pippo
Date of birth July 25, 1996
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
Driver type Time trial
height 193 cm
Racing weight 82 kg
To the team
Current team Ineos Grenadiers
function driver
International team (s)
2017-2018
2019- 		UAE Team Emirates
Team Sky / Team Ineos
Most important successes
UCI World Tour
five stages Giro d'Italia 2020 , 2021
one stage of the BinckBank Tour 2019
one stage UAE Tour 2021
UCI Road World Championships
2020 world champion - individual time trialWorld Champion
UCI track world championships
2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 World Champion World Champion - Single Pursuit
UEC European Rail Championships (Elite)
2018 European Champion 2016 European Champion - Team Pursuit
2017 European Champion 2016 European Champion - Single Pursuit
Last updated: May 8, 2021

Filippo Ganna (born July 25, 1996 in Verbania ) is an Italian cyclist who is active on the road and track . Up to and including 2020 he was four times world champion in the single pursuit and once in the individual time trial .

Athletic career

In 2012 Filippo Ganna became Italian youth champion in the individual time trial . Two years later he repeated this success with the juniors and also won the national junior title in the single pursuit on the track. In the individual time trial of the juniors at the UCI Road World Championships 2014 in Ponferrada , he finished fourth; he also occupied this rank at the European Road Championships in the same year. In 2015, 1.93 meters tall Ganna won the top-class time trial Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen for elite men.

At the UCI Track World Championships in London in 2016 , the 19-year-old Ganna became world champion in the singles pursuit after setting a new Italian record in qualifying with 4: 16.127 minutes. After this surprising success, he was already celebrated in Italian newspapers as the new Francesco Moser , who 40 years earlier, in 1976 , had been the last Italian world champion in this discipline. In the same year he was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished sixth in the team pursuit with Simone Consonni , Liam Bertazzo and Francesco Lamon .

At the 2017 UCI Track World Championships in Hong Kong , Ganna won the bronze medal in the team pursuit together with Consonni, Bertazzo and Lamon, and silver in the single pursuit. At the European Railway Championships in Berlin in autumn 2017 he was European Champion in the single pursuit, at the European Railway Championships he won the team pursuit title with Elia Viviani , Liam Bertazzo and Francesco Lamon . At the UCI Rail World Championships 2018 in Apeldoorn he was able to win the world title in this discipline and defend it the following year at the Rail World Championships in Pruszków, Poland, and at the UCI Rail World Championships 2020 in Berlin . In the Berlin Velodrome , he also improved his own world record in the 4,000-meter single pursuit from 4: 02.647 two times to ultimately 4: 01.934 minutes.

In April 2020 Filippo Ganna announced his plan to set a new world hour record, which Victor Campenaerts had improved to 55.089 kilometers the previous year . In September 2020, Ganna won the individual time trial from Tirreno-Adriatico and improved Fabian Cancellara's four-year-old track record over 10.1 kilometers by 26 seconds in San Benedetto del Tronto . A few weeks later he became the first Italian world champion in the individual time trial at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola since the introduction of this discipline in 1994. At the Giro d'Italia 2020 , he won all time trials with stages 1 , 14 and 21 as well as the 5th stage as an outlier.

Because of a positive test for COVID-19 , Ganna could not start at the UEC European Rail Championships in November 2020 . In spring 2021 he won two stages of Étoile de Bessèges .

family

As far as is known, Filippo Ganna is not related to Luigi Ganna , the winner of the first Giro d'Italia . However, his grandfather Ambrosio comes from the same area in the province of Varese as Luigi Ganna. His father Marco Ganna competed in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles in a four-person kayak .

successes

Ganna in the qualification of the single pursuit at the Track World Cup 2020
Ganna with the mascot Trackie at the World Cup in Berlin

road

2012
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion (youth) - individual time trial
2014
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian Champion (Juniors) - Individual Time Trial
2015
2016
2018
2019
2020
2021

train

2014
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian Champion (Juniors) - Individual Pursuit
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Important placements (street)

Grand Tour 2018 2019 2020 2021
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 61 IP
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - -
Legend: IP: in progress , currently participating.
World Championship 2018 2019 2020
Road racing - - -
Individual time trial - 3 1
Team time trial - - -
Monument to cycling 2018 2019 2020 2021
Milan – Sanremo 161 114 74 64
Tour of Flanders DNF 98 - -
Paris – Roubaix DNF DNF -
Liège – Bastogne – Liège - - - -
Lombardy tour - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or not classified due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Filippo Ganna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ciclismo, Mondiali su pista: Filippo Ganna è nella storia. In: sportmediaset.mediaset.it. Retrieved March 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Mondiali di ciclismo su pista, Ganna re nell'Inseguimento: Italia d'oro dopo anni 40th In: corriere.it. March 4, 2016, accessed March 5, 2016 (Italian).
  3. ↑ 4: 02,647 - Italian Ganna sets two world records / Track Cycling Berlin Germany. In: trackcycling-berlin.com. August 31, 2018, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  4. ^ Filippo Ganna looking to make an attempt at the world hour record. In: velonews.com. April 27, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Ganna rushes from heights "vacation" into the history books. In: radsport-news.com. September 25, 2020, accessed September 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Time trial world champion Ganna fails after a positive corona test for track EM. In: rad-net.de. November 6, 2020, accessed November 6, 2020 .
  7. ^ Ecco chi è Filippo Ganna. In: gazzetta.it. Retrieved March 5, 2016 (Italian).
  8. ↑ Marco Regazzoni: Mondiali ciclismo Ponferrada 2014: Ganna, un “legno” che sa di futuro. In: oasport.it. March 5, 2016, accessed March 5, 2016 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Ganna, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Verbania