After profitable fourteen monitor medals between 2016 and 2023, Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) will forego monitor racing beginning in 2025, so as to focus completely on highway racing.
Ganna instructed 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.
“In the event you have a look at the listing, the time spent on the monitor is lower than the numerous occasions. In my case, it’s going to imply not collaborating in World Championships and World Cups on the monitor and perhaps doing a little extra coaching to enhance on the highway,” Ganna stated.
Ganna has achieved vital success on the monitor, together with an Olympic gold medal within the crew pursuit in 2021, and 2022 and setting the hour document, by driving a shocking 56.792km in a single hour.
Foreshadowing his resolution, the six-time monitor particular person pursuit world champion skipped the world championships in October held in Denmark this 12 months.
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 12 months.
Whereas Ganna claimed the bronze medal within the crew pursuit on the Paris Olympic Video games, Ganna admitted that he was upset 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 Highway Championships in Zurich, this time, he was seven seconds behind the Belgian.
In 2024, he added 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 monitor as a part of his coaching to attain his goal to win, “as a lot as doable.”
“Clearly I’m not abandoning the monitor, it’s wanted for these load volumes that I can not preserve on the highway.”
