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(Reuters) - Italy's Filippo Ganna smashed the men's individual pursuit world record en route to clinching his fifth world title in the event at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome in France on Friday.
Great Britain claimed victory in the men's team pursuit world title against defending world champions Italy at the 2022 UCI Track World Championships. The win marks their first in the discipline since 2018. Ad The Italian team consisted of Filippo Ganna, Simone Consonni, Jonathan Milan, and Manilo Moro, while Team GB contained Dan Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Ollie Wood and Ethan Vernon.
The UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2022 begin on Wednesday in Paris, with Great Britain sending nine riders across their men's and women's squads as they bid to win the treasured rainbow colours. Eleven disciplines will be held at the Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, with those being: team pursuit, individual pursuit, keirin, time trial, points race, scratch race, elimination race, sprint, team sprint, omnium and Madison. Ad The competition is held annually, and features both a men's and women's programme.
Switzerland on Saturday. Olympic team pursuit champion Ganna bettered the surprise mark set by Britain's Daniel Bigham, a performance engineer at his Ineos Grenadiers team, of 55.548km on the same track last August. "It's amazing, fantastic.
Ineos Grenadiers rider Filippo Ganna has smashed the world hour record at the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland and said afterwards that he can improve the mark again. At the halfway mark, Ganna's pace was ahead of the target by a small margin — and with 15 minutes remaining, the Italian had extended the gap. Ad When the bell rang to signal the end of the race, Ganna had set a new record mark of 56.792 km, an increase of more than 1.24 km over the previous record held by Daniel Bingham.
Italian Filippo Ganna made up for a disappointing season so far by powering to a new track one-hour record of 56.792km at the Grenchen velodrome in Switzerland on Saturday.
GRENCHEN, Switzerland -Italy's Filippo Ganna claimed the Hour record by covering 56.792 kilometres at the Grenchen, Switzerland, velodrome on Saturday.
Filippo Ganna smashed the Hour Record after he completed a distance of 56.792 km around the Tissot Velodrome in Grenchen, Switzerland. Ganna beat the previous mark of 55.548 km set by Great Britain’s Daniel Bigham – a performance engineer at Ineos Grenadiers – back on August 19.