Filippo Ganna will compete in the team pursuit and time trial at the Glasgow UCI Road World Championships.

The track races begin on Thursday, August 3, and the combined elite and paracycling schedule runs through August 13. The men's road race is on Sunday, August 6, and the women's road race a week later on Sunday, August 13. The time trial events will take place in between, with the men's time trial on Friday, August 11.

With the 2024 Paris Olympics just a year away, Ganna and fellow Pursuit competitor Jonathan Milano have chosen to focus on track events and will form the core of the men's Team Pursuit team on August 3, 4, and 5. Italian men's national coach Daniele Bennati was forced to form a road race team without Ganna, despite Ganna's victory in the Tour de Wallonie and impressive runs in Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix.

"They talk a lot about riders in combined events, but riders on track and road have a difficult choice to make.

Alberto Bettiol (EF Education Easy Post) and Matteo Trentin (UAE Emirates) lead the Italian men's road race team, with Andrea Bagioli (Srdal-Quick Step) and Daniel Oss (Total Energie) The team will be led by Italian national champion Simone Velasco (Astana), Filippo Baroncini (Lidl Trek), Lorenzo Rota (Intermarque Wanty), Christian Sbaragli (Alpecin Deceuninck), and eight other riders.

They will gather in the hills of northern Tuscany for final training before traveling to Scotland on Thursday.

"The Glasgow road race circuit is a real test, with 400 corners during the 270 km race. The selected riders know they will have to give it their all," Bennati said. [For classic riders like Mathieu van der Pol, Mads Pedersen, and Wout Van Aert, it is a course without much climbing. But with 3700 meters of climbing, the circuit will hurt everyone's legs. If a strong rider gets away, it will be hard to chase him."

Ganna will arrive in Glasgow shortly to do some final track training before heading into the time trial.

He has won time trial world titles in Imola in 2020 and Bruges in 2021 and is looking for a third. The undulating 48.1 km course west of Stirling will feature Belgians Remco Evenpole and Wout Van Aert, Rohan Dennis (Australia), 2022 world champion Tobias Foss (Norway), Josh Tarling and Geraint Thomas ( (Great Britain), Stefan Küng and Stefan Bissinger (Switzerland), and American Brandon McNulty will be the biggest competitors.

"The time trial world title is one of my main goals this year. I want to achieve a good result," Ganna recently told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

"I'm up against some big rivals, so I have to stay focused, study the course carefully, and try not to make any mistakes.

None of Ganna's time trial rivals will be on the track, but he is focused on bringing Italy a second Olympic gold medal in Team Pursuit at the 2024 Paris Games. Since competing in the Giro d'Italia, Ganna has been fine-tuning his final positions and equipment choices by training on the track, the Tour de Wallonie, and even visiting the wind tunnel in Milan, in addition to training at high altitude in Andorra.

"It takes a lot of energy physically and mentally to do the double, but I want to do both," Ganna said of the track and the Glasgow time trial.

"Winning the time trial at the Tour de Wallonie showed me that my numbers are where they should be. There are question marks over some technical choices, but Dario Cioni (Ganna's coach at Ineos Grenadier) is watching me. I'm very happy because at the World Championships we have to have the same set-up as in Paris."