Filippo Ganna

Italy's Filippo Ganna is one of the pre-eminent time trialist of his generation, having won the World Championships in the discipline in 2020 and 2021 and also captured the World Hour Record with a distance of 56.792km in October 2022. Ganna turned pro with UAE Team Emirates in 2017, moving to his current team Ineos Grenadiers in 2019.

Born on July 25, 1996 in Verbania, Italy, Ganna rapidly risen to cycling stardom, emerging during the 2019 and 2020 seasons as a near-unbeatable force in time trials. After winning Italian national titles in the race against the clock as a junior (2014) and U23 rider (2016), he went on to win the elite title five times (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024). He has also won time trials at the Giro d'Italia, Critérium du Dauphiné, and Tirreno-Adriatico over the years – including a phenomenal display at the COVID-19-delayed 2020 Giro d'Italia which saw him win all three time trials in addition to taking a solo victory on the mid-mountain stage to Camigliatello Silano. In 2023 he won his first time trial at the Vuelta a España.

Ganna also claimed the first GC title of his career at the 2023 Tour de Wallonie, using a time trial victory on stage 4 to seal the five-day stage race win. Possessing supreme power on the flat, it's no surprise that Ganna has added Paris-Roubaix to his list of career goals. He finished 35th on his race debut in 2022 and followed that in 2023 with sixth. In recent years Milan-San Remo has also become a major goal. He finished second in 2023 and was in the thick of the action until the sprint finish.

He has even more achievements indoors on the velodrome, having won nine medals at UCI Track Worlds, to date, including six world titles in the Individual Pursuit. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, he was part of the Italian team which won gold in the Team Pursuit. If that wasn't enough he also holds the world record times in both the individual pursuit and the team pursuit, along with Italy teammates Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon, and Jonathan Milan. In 2024, Ganna was with the same team for the Paris Olympics but the Italians could only manage third behind Australia and Great Britain. A few days earlier Ganna won the silver medal in the Olympic Games time trial behind Remco Evenepoel.

On the road, Ganna's 2024 season included a time trial stage win in the Giro d'Italia, a fifth title in the Italian championship time trial and a stage of the Tour of Austria. His season was built around the Olympic Games but he also rode the Giro d'Italia. He was tired after an intense summer but won the silver medal in the time trial at the Zurich World Championships, with Evenepoel again beating him to the title. 

Key wins

🥇 Italian National Championships men’s elite time trial – 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024

🥇 Track World Championships individual pursuit - 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023

🥇 Olympic Games team pursuit (2021)

2024

🥇 Giro d'Italia stage 14

🥈 UCI Road World Championships individual time trial (2024)

🥈 Olympic Games individual time trial (2024)

🥉 Olympic Games team pursuit (2024)

2023

🥇 Tour de Wallonie overall 

🥇 stage at Vuelta a España 

2022

World Hour Record

🥇 stage at Tirreno-Adriatico

🥇 stage at Critérium du Dauphiné

2021

🥇 Olympic Games team pursuit

🥇 Road World Championships time trial

🥇 Track World Championships team pursuit

🥇 two stages at Giro d'Italia

2020

🥇 Road World Championships time trial

🥇 four stages at Giro d'Italia

🥇 stage at Tirreno-Adriatico

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🥇 UEC Track European Championships individual pursuit - 2017

🥇 UEC Track European Championships team pursuit - 2018