After successful fourteen monitor medals between 2016 and 2023, Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) will forego monitor racing beginning in 2025, so as to focus solely on street racing.
Ganna advised Adnkronos throughout an occasion on the Technical College of Milan that the progressive shift in direction of the street resulted from his racing schedule.
“In case you take a look at the checklist, the time spent on the monitor is lower than the numerous occasions. In my case, it’s going to imply now not taking part in World Championships and World Cups on the monitor and possibly performing some extra coaching to enhance on the street,” Ganna mentioned.
Ganna has achieved important success on the monitor, together with an Olympic gold medal within the workforce pursuit in 2021, and 2022 and setting the hour document, by driving a shocking 56.792km in a single hour.
Foreshadowing his choice, the six-time monitor 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 together 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 likewise took time trial victory on stage 14 on the Giro d’Italia.
Ganna will proceed to make use of the monitor as a part of his coaching to realize his goal to win, “as a lot as attainable.”
“Clearly I’m not abandoning the monitor, it’s wanted for these load volumes that I can’t keep on the street.”
