Filippo Ganna: Ineos Grenadiers rider obliterates Hour Record with stunning showing in Grenchen, Switzerland

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.

Since Bradley Wiggins obliterated the best mark in London in 2015, there has been a certain aura around the Hour Record. The 2012 Tour de France winner and five-time Olympic champion held it for four years before Victor Campenaerts surpassed it at altitude.

Since then, Ineos have poured resource into the challenge with performance engineer Bigham cracking the record in August, admitting he had “ungodly support” from the British-based team.

Now Ganna holds the best mark after he completed 227 laps of the track to beat the previous best mark by just over 1.3 kms.

Hour Record Holders

• October 2022: Filippo Ganna (ITA), Tissot Velodrome, Grenchen, 56.792 km
• August 2022: Dan Bigham (GBR), Tissot Velodrome, Grenchen, 55.548 km
• April 2019: Victor Campenaerts (BEL), Velodromo Bicentenario, Aguascalientes, 55.089 km
• June 2015: Bradley Wiggins (GBR), Lee Valley VeloPark, London, 54.526 km
• May 2015: Alex Dowsett (GBR), National Cycling Centre, Manchester, 52.937 km
• February 2015: Rohan Dennis (AUS), Velodrome Suisse, Grenchen, 52.491 km
• October 2014: Matthias Brändle (AUT), UCI World Cycling Centre, Aigle, 51.852 km
• September 2014 : Jens Voigt (GER), Velodrome Suisse, Grenchen, 51.110 km

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