Italian Filippo Ganna postpones bid to break Victor Campenaerts' hour record to focus on Tour de France

Filippo Ganna has confirmed that he will not make an attempt to break Victor Campenaerts' world hour record in August as previously planned. The Ineos Grenadiers rider told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport in May that he would make the attempt at Switzerland's Grenchen velodrome in August, but he has changed his plans. Ad/> Instead, Ganna will focus on his debut campaign in the ongoing Tour de France, saying «I wanted to have nothing else in my head.

Once the Tour is finished, I will decide the date». Tour de France'No feelings' — Ewan and Alpecin-Deceuninck fined for drafting after crash4 HOURS AGO Three years after joining Ineos Grenadiers, Ganna has emerged as one of the world's finest time trialists. He is the two-time defending world champion, winning the 2021 title in Belgium and a year earlier in Italy.

Any attempt to break the three-year-old record will likely be delayed until after September's World Championships in Wollongong, Australia. Of the world record, Ganna said: «It is not my priority. Lots of people asked me to do it, it didn't come from me.

In any case, we’ll wait a little longer.» 'Oh no, horrible!' — Shock as Ewan and entire Lotto-Soudal team crash at corner 'Hammer blow' — Reaction to shock crash and 'excruciating pain' for Ewan at Tour In fact, it seems likely that Ganna will wait until 2023 to make his assault on Campenaerts' mark. Martin Toft Madsen, Mathias Norsgaard, Claudio Imhof, Lionel Sanders and Alex Dowsett have all made failed attempts to break the world record since Campenaerts set it in 2019. Ganna has worn a specially-developed «supersonic» bio-racer suit during the Tour's time trial.