Filippo Ganna (Grenchen, 08.10.2022, 56.792 km)
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Filippo Ganna 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 so far (october 2022).
He also won the men's individual time trial at the 2020 and 2021 UCI Road World
Championships and has stage wins in the Giro d'Italia. He also won the gold medal
in the team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics held at Tokyo in 2021, setting a
new world record.
His personal best in the individual pursuit is 4:01.934 at the world championchips in
Berlin 2020, a world record at that time.
In 2021 he revealed plans to attack the hour record, in a
30 minutes test at the velodrome in Montichiari
he completed 115 laps (57,5 km/h).
However, the 2022 season was not as good as the years before, he failed to win major titles in
the individual time trial.
Finally his attempt was scheduled for 8th october at the velodrome in Grenchen.
The Ineos Grenadiers team (including the current record holder Dan Bigham) put in a massive effort
to support him with the best material possible. His bike was a prototype from Pinarello printed in 3D.
The attempt started at 20:00 CEST. This time all the split times were shown on the screen, but the
reference split times shown were not those of Dan Bigham (as it usually the case in an hour record),
but for a pacing strategy with (after four laps of a starting phase) constant laps of 55,717 km/h,
which would break the old record. This caused some confusing also for the commentators, since Ganna
was trailing those split references in the beginning. In reality he was always faster than Dan Bigham,
but much slower than Chris Boardman 1996. However, Ganna increased his speed more and more. After 18 km
he reached the old mark of 55.548 km/h, at 33.75 km he was faster than 56 km/h. Again he increased his
speed and between 35 to 50 km he rode consistently between 58 - 59 km/h! At 41 km he reached
Chris Boardman's mark of 56,375 km/h.
This incredible effort finally took it's toll, and he started to struggle, not able to keep a perfect straight line
as before. But still he was able to keep his laps above 56 km/h, so the average speed was still
increasing. In the and he reached 56.792 km, thus unifying the record with the old "best human effort".
In my opinion it is satisfying that he was able to transform his individual pursuit performance (where his best time
is almost 10 seconds faster than Chris Boardman's time in 1996) into the hour record.
However, in my opinion his starting phase was too slow, a more constant pacing strategy
(avoiding those grueling 58 - 59 km/h laps) could have made -maybe- more than 57 km possible.
In the interview right after the attempt he confirmed this, saying that he would do another attempt
in the near future "with fresher legs", however, on the next day he said that he would probably only
try another attempt at the end of his cycling career.
Article in "Cycling News":
€75k per hour – Filippo Ganna's full gear and kit list for his Hour Record attempt
Article in "Cycling News":
Filippo Ganna, the new Superman, beats Boardman's 1996 Hour Record
Article in "Cycling Tips": Gallery: Ganna's Hour Record Bike
Video: Ineos Grenadiers Youtube channel
Split Times
km
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Dan Bigham
Grenchen
19.08.2022 |
Chris Boardman
Manchester
06.09.1996 |
Filippo Ganna
Grenchen
08.10.2022 |
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| time |
avg. speed |
time |
avg. speed |
time |
avg. speed |
| 1 |
1.15.301 |
47.808 |
1.10.8 |
50.84 |
1.13.3 |
49.11 |
| 5 |
5.39.683 |
52.991 |
5.27.0 |
55.046 |
5.35.3 |
53.76 |
| 10 |
11:9.005 |
53.811 |
10.47.1 |
55.633 |
11:00.6 |
54.52 |
| 15 |
16:36.595 |
54.184 |
16.05.5 |
55.926 |
16:22.2 |
54.99 |
| 20 |
22:1.475 |
54.484 |
21.23.9 |
56.078 |
21:41.5 |
55.34 |
| 25 |
27:24.229 |
54.736 |
26.42.5 |
56.160 |
26:59.3 |
55.59 |
| 30 |
32:45.16 |
54.957 |
32.00.5 |
56.249 |
32:14.3 |
55.85 |
| 35 |
38:6.35 |
55.109 |
37.20.7 |
56.231 |
37:27.5 |
56.07 |
| 40 |
43:25.802 |
55.261 |
42.41.3 |
56.222 |
42:36.5 |
56.34 |
| 45 |
48:44.927 |
55.386 |
48.01.1 |
56.228 |
47:43.8 |
56.58 |
| 50 |
54:4.448 |
55.479 |
53.21.7 |
56.219 |
52:52.9 |
56.73 |
| 55 |
59:24.691 |
55.545 |
58:35.5 |
56.323 |
58:07.2 |
56.78 | | 1 hour |
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55.548 |
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56.375 |
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56.792 |
Showing the lap-speed and the average speed vs. distance for each lap
(you can find the data here):
Comparison with Chris Boardman's and Dan Bigham's attempt:
A graph by Xavier Disley (twitter.com/xavierdisley)
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