Spend I’m Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon, Simone Consonni e Jonathan Milan, the four cyclists who won the sixth gold medal for Italy at Olympic Games from Tokyo 2020? The Azzurri beat their opponents with a time of 3′42 ″ 032, improving the record set yesterday, 3′42 ″ 307, and beating Denmark by just 166 thousandths.
Gold medal at the Olympics, who I am Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon, Simone Consonni e Jonathan Milan
Filippo Ganna (decisive with his tears in the last four laps), Francesco Lamon, Simone Consonni e Jonathan Milan the protagonists of the company who put on the showcase the medal number 30 (the sixth of the most precious metal so far) for our country in this edition of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
Filippo Ganna, the star of the quartet
Born in Verbania on 25 July 1996, Filippo Ganna is the most cyclist famous of the group. Professional since 2017, he is a long distance runner specialized in time trials, a discipline in which he was twice national champion and then world champion in 2020 in Imola. Exceptional Pistard, he is a four-time world champion in individual pursuit, complete with a specialty record (4’01 ″ 934). A predestined, already from the surname: Ganna, like Luigi who in 1909 won the first Giro d’Italia. There is no relationship between the two. Filippo is the son of art, but of Marco, a blue canoeist in Los Angeles 1984 who passed on to him the hobby of gardening.
On the road he rides for the British team Ineos and in the last two editions of the Corsa rosa he was the first cyclist to wear the symbol of primacy. TO Tokyo he also participated in the time trial on the road, finishing fifth.
The blue flame Francesco Lamon
Athlete affiliated with the Sports Group Blue Flames, Francesco Lamon boasts three world bronzes in team pursuit and a European title in the same discipline, obtained in Glasgow in 2018. Born in Mirano (Venice) on February 5, 1994, two great interpreters of the discipline, Cipriano, passed on to him his passion for the track. Chemello and Attilio Benfatto, who was also his first teacher, together with his brothers Sandro and Marino Bettuolo.
Born in UC Mirano, a club in which he played since the very young category, he won the national team very early and was selected for Rio 2016, where he finished sixth in the team pursuit. When he’s not pedaling, he listens to music and watches movies.
Simone Consonni, Elia Viviani’s forerunner
Born in Ponte San Pietro on 12 September 1994, Simone Consonni lives in Lallio, a town on the outskirts of Bergamo. A professional since 2017, he started cycling at the age of six, together with the children of a friend of his father, who can be said to have discovered it. From Under 23, he finished second at the road world championships in 2015, and then obtained five medals at the track world championships in recent years (four bronzes and one silver).
Carded with the French team of Cofidis during the road season, he is the man who launches the sprint in Elia Viviani.
Jonathan Milan, the youngest of the team
Jonathan Milan is the youngest of the quartet. He was born on 1 October 2000 in Tolmezzo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and has just turned pro in the ranks of the Bahrain Victorious. 194 centimeters tall and 46 in shoes, he started cycling at the age of four, riding one mountain bike among the grassy fields of Buja, where he lives. Son of FlavioJonathan, a professional active in the early 90s, in addition to pedaling loves trekking, watching action movies and, as a good Italian, pizza. Reluctant to social media, before approaching two wheels he practiced judo, karate and swimming.
His secret dream (archived the Olympics) is to win the Paris-Roubaix, a classic monument to the idol Peter Sagan in 2018. In an interview he said he considered Marco Pantani to be the strongest cyclist of all time “because he proved to be a champion with a unique character”.
