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 four-time world champion in the individual pursuit, and has won a total of eight medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He also won the men's individual time trial at the 2020 and 2021 UCI Road World Championships, four stages in the 2020 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2021 Giro d'Italia. He won the gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics held at Tokyo in 2021, setting a new world record.
The son of former Italian Olympic sprint canoer Marco Ganna, Filippo Ganna burst onto the scene at the 2016 World Indoor Championships with an unusual negative splits pursuit style of starting very slowly and falling behind, then winding up the speed in the second half to win easily. Filippo 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]
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.
| Grand Tour | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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61 | 118 |
 Tour de France
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— | — |
 Vuelta a España
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— | — |
| Event | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 World Championships
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Time trial | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Road race | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Mixed team relay | Did not exist | — | NH | 3 | ||
|
Time trial | 9 | 12 | 6 | — | 2 |
| Road race | DNF | — | — | — | DNF | |
| Mixed team relay | Did not exist | — | — | 1 | ||
 National Championships
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Time trial | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Road race | DNF | DNF | 38 | — | — | |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Team pursuit, Olympic Games| Date | Time | Meet | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2019 | 4:04.252 | UCI Track Cycling World Cup | Individual Pursuit | Minsk,  Belarus
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| 3 November 2019 | 4:02.647 | UCI Track Cycling World Cup | Individual Pursuit | Minsk, Belarus
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| 28 February 2020 | 4:01.934 | UCI Track Cycling World Cup | Individual Pursuit | Berlin,  Germany
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| 3 August 2021 | 3:42.307 | 2020 Olympics | Team Pursuit (with Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon & Jonathan Milan) |
Izu,  Japan
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| 4 August 2021 | 3:42.032 | 2020 Olympics | Team Pursuit (with Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon & Jonathan Milan) |
Izu, Japan
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