Twenty-eight years outdated on July 25, Filippo Ganna was born in Verbania, however lived in Vignone earlier than transferring to Ascona, on the Swiss shores of Lake Maggiore. His father, Marco, was an Olympic canoeist in Los Angeles 1984. His mom, Daniela Trisconi, is initially from Omegna. Raised within the Pedale Ossolano membership, he made his debut in 2015 as an Below 23 and the next yr, at 19, he was already world champion within the particular person pursuit on the monitor, the primary Italian to take action after Francesco Moser (1976). A month later he received the Paris-Roubaix in his class and obtained a contract as an intern with Lampre-Merida. He made his debut among the many execs on the finish of 2016, on the Gp Beghelli. His, in highway biking, is a protracted run-in. However within the meantime he continues to win on the monitor: between particular person and staff pursuit he has climbed onto the world championship podium 13 occasions (7 golds). On the highway he obtained his first success on the Tour de la Provence, within the time trial, sporting the Staff Sky jersey.
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Paris 2024, Mattarella congratulates him on the silver, Ganna replies: “We tried, come on”
The ultimate explosion comes within the unusual 2020 season, the one conditioned by Covid: he wins the time trial at Tirreno-Adriatico and two weeks later in Imola he turns into world time trial champion. The double world championship comes a yr later in Bruges forward of Van Aert and Evenepoel. Within the meantime, nonetheless, he wears the pink jersey on the 2020 Giro and wins a stage in a highway race, on the Sila. With the rainbow jersey he triumphs within the opening time trial of the Giro, in Turin, in 2021. His fashion, his energy, his obsessive research of particulars and supplies, his bikes (Pinarello) develop into proverbial. On the Tokyo Video games he’s fifth within the time trial, simply 2” from the rostrum, and turns into Olympic champion with the quartet on the monitor (with him Francesco Lamon, Simone Consonni and Jonathan Milan, he’ll meet them once more in Paris within the staff pursuit race, 5-7 August), beating Denmark in a heart-stopping remaining. It’s the “Ganna prepare”: his spectacular treads dig the decisive furrow within the remaining of the problem for gold, spiced up by the world report.
Ganna after the Olympic silver: “I’m the primary of the losers, however I dedicate this medal to myself”
Hour report destroyed
In October 2022, on the Swiss monitor of Grenchen, he destroyed the hour report, set a month earlier by his coaching accomplice Dan Bigham: Ganna continues to be the holder of the noblest report in biking with an astronomical 56.792 km. In 2023 he was second within the Milan-Sanremo, sixth within the Roubaix. He received the World Championship once more within the particular person pursuit in Glasgow (the sixth title within the specialty, a report) and was silver within the time trial behind Remco Evenepoel. This yr he has grown step by step, all the time with the Olympic objective in thoughts: crushed solely by Pogacar within the time trial of the Giro di Perugia, he managed to beat the Slovenian within the one in Desenzano. Then the stage victory on the Tour of Austria, between a excessive altitude retreat in Livigno, the preparation work on the monitor in Montichiari and per week at excessive altitude on the Rifugio Maroli, on Monte Rosa. Now the Olympic silver.
Filippo Ganna wins the primary medal for Italy: silver within the time trial. Evenepoel wins
