After successful fourteen observe medals between 2016 and 2023, Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) will forego observe racing beginning in 2025, to be able to focus solely on highway racing.
Ganna informed Adnkronos throughout an occasion on the Technical College of Milan that the progressive shift in the direction of the highway resulted from his racing schedule.
“When you have a look at the listing, the time spent on the observe is lower than the numerous occasions. In my case, it is going to imply now not collaborating in World Championships and World Cups on the observe and possibly doing a little extra coaching to enhance on the highway,” Ganna stated.
Ganna has achieved vital success on the observe, together with an Olympic gold medal within the workforce pursuit in 2021, and 2022 and setting the hour document, by using a surprising 56.792km in a single hour.
Foreshadowing his choice, the six-time observe particular person pursuit world champion skipped the world championships in October held in Denmark this yr.
The pre-eminent time trialist of his technology, winner of the 2020 and 2021 world time trial title, Ganna has been eclipsed by Remco Evenepoel this yr.
Whereas Ganna claimed the bronze medal within the workforce pursuit on the Paris Olympic Video games, Ganna admitted that he was dissatisfied along with his silver medal within the time trial when he was 15 seconds slower than winner Evenepoel.
As soon as once more, the two-time time trial world champion (2020, 2021) completed second to Evenepoel within the time trial on the World Street Championships in Zurich, this time, he was seven seconds behind the Belgian.
In 2024, he did add to his palmares the Italian time trial championships for the fifth time and in addition took time trial victory on stage 14 on the Giro d’Italia.
Ganna will proceed to make use of the observe as a part of his coaching to realize his goal to win, “as a lot as potential.”
“Clearly I’m not abandoning the observe, it’s wanted for these load volumes that I can not keep on the highway.”
