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 won eight stages in the Giro d'Italia and two stages in the Vuelta a España, 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 , 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.
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 (3) 1st Time trial, National Championships 1st Stage 18 (ITT) Vuelta a España 2nd Time trial, UEC European 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 2026 (5) 1st Time trial, National Championships UCI Road World Championships 1st Team relay 2nd Time trial 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen 1st Stage 10 (ITT) Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Volta ao Algarve 7th Overall Tour of Britain 1st Points classification
Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — — — 61 118 — DNF 101 — 99 Tour de France — — — — — 95 — — DNF 123 Vuelta a España — — — — — — 104 — 131 —
Classics results timeline Monument 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Milan–San Remo 161 114 74 64 512 402 33 Tour of Flanders DNF 98 — — — — —8 — Paris–Roubaix OTL DNF — — 356 — 13 25 Liège–Bastogne–LiègeHas not contested during his career Giro di LombardiaClassic 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 E3 Saxo Bank Classic — —NH — —10 —3 — Gent–Wevelgem 43 DNF — — — DNF — — 34 Dwars door Vlaanderen DNF — — — — 91 — —1 Gran Piemonte 17 OTL 32 116 —4 DNF 27
Major championships results timeline Event 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Olympic GamesRoad raceNot held —Not held —Not heldTime trial52 World ChampionshipsRoad race — — — — — — — — — Time trial — —311722 —2 European ChampionshipsRoad race DNF — — — DNF 61 37 — — Time trial9 126 —23 — — 2 National Championships Road race DNF DNF 38 — — — 114 56 — Time trial 12211411111
+ 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 3rd Team pursuit, UCI Nations Cup, Adelaide
World records + Date Time Meet Event Location 3 November 2019 4:04.252 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Individual Pursuit Minsk, 3 November 2019 4:02.647 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Individual Pursuit Minsk, 28 February 2020 4:01.934 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Individual Pursuit Berlin, 3 August 2021 3:42.307 2020 Olympics Team Pursuit (with Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon & Jonathan Milan) Izu, 4 August 2021 3:42.032 2020 Olympics Team Pursuit (with Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon & Jonathan Milan) Izu, 14 October 2022 3:59.636 UCI Track Cycling World Championships Individual Pursuit Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
See also List of world records in track cycling
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