Olympics, team pursuit: extraordinary gold and world record for Italy and Filippo Ganna!

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Who won the team pursuit gold at the Olympics in Tokyo 2020? A great final round against Denmark has lead to an historic gold for Italy in the team pursuit, enriched by yet another world record!

After the disappointments of the road, Italian cycling has finally been able to redeem itself with an epic performance in team pursuit. The Italian quartet, made up of Filippo Ganna, Jonathan Milan, Simone Consonni and Francesco Lamon conquered the top step of the podium in a heart-pounding final. Starting well, the Azzurri have kept a constant advantage of about 2-3 tenths up to 2km. Then they gave up something and Denmark gradually pushed ahead, gradually recovering and then taking the lead. The gap widened considerably, up to 0,8" when there were three laps left. The situation now seemed doomed, when Filippo Ganna's heart and muscles guided the remaining two riders of the quartet towards an incredible recovery. Three breathtaking laps, which allowed to overturn the situation and reach the sprint with the three arrows in line and overtake the Danes by only 0.166". The chronometric result is amazing: 3'42 "032 and a new World Record!

Yesterday, in the qualifying heats, the quartet had been the protagonist of an incredible performance against the strong New Zealanders, setting the new world record in 3'42''307, breaking down the previous record by 2 "3. The four Italian locomotives managed to recover the slight deficit to the opponents and ended up with an extraordinary time that was worth the qualification for the final against Denmark.

The latter had qualified ex officio to the final round despite an accident in its battery against Great Britain, which had forced the suspension of it. The Danish Madsen had in fact impacted at full speed against the British Tanfield who had lost his train causing a spectacular crash, luckily without consequences. The jury then validated the victory (and the passage to the final) of the Scandinavians who at that moment were ahead.

Tokyo 2020: historic Olympics for the Italian flag

An edition of the Olympics that is reserving great satisfactions to Italian athletes, and now it is hoped that this result will give a great spur to the remaining two-wheel races (any reference to Elia Viviani is purely wanted!)

For the Italian quartet a great satisfaction and a historic milestone. The Italian national team on track has found new life in recent years, thanks to the precious contribution of the federation, especially by Marco Villa, but also by the mistreated Davide Cassani who has been able to integrate the activity of the track and the road. Filippo Ganna is now a beacon of world cycling, but also the young Milan is the present of the track and perhaps the future of the road, without forgetting Consonni, an excellent lieutenant and the very young Lamon.

A national cycling team that uses Pinarello bicycles, sinonyms of high-tech, performance and reliability

A result that also consolidates the movement of Italian track cycling and makes many young people approach this discipline.

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