The Italian rider faced compatriot Jonathan Milan in the gold-medal race on the third day of action at the National Velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - the scheduled venue for track cycling at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Milan led at the halfway mark, before Ganna came back strongly in the second half of the race, taking victory in a world record time of 3min 59.636sec.

Ganna received a standing ovation from the crowd after his latest record feat, which came on the back of him breaking the men’s hour record in Grenchen, Switzerland, covering 56.762 kilometres.

Tonight’s victory gives Ganna a fifth world title in the individual pursuit discipline, and after his latest success Ganna said he planned to "celebrate and recover a little bit" following a "really testing season", as reported by BBC Sport.

The bronze medal race went to Manuel Ivo Alves Oliveira of Portugal in 4:08.738, as he defeated Britain’s Daniel Bigham.

In the men’s points race Yoeri Havik of the Netherlands won his first world title, as he took the crown with 76 points.

Silver went to Germany’s Roger Kluge on 67 points, with Belgium’s Fabio van den Bossche completing the podium with 64 points.

In the men’s one kilometre time trial there was more Dutch success with Jeffrey Hoogland taking gold after crossing the line in 58.106 seconds.

Victory gave Hoogland, part of the Dutch squad that won the team sprint at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, a second 1km time trial World Championship victory following his success in 2018.

Melvin Landerneau of France took the silver medal, with bronze won by Alejandro Martinez Chorro of Spain.

Olympic omnium champion Jennifer Valente of the United States took the women’s omnium title, ending on 118 points.

Valente, whose victory today saw her earn a first World Championship gold medal in an individual discipline, triumphed in both the scratch and elimination races on her way to the win, by nine points from the Netherlands Maike van der Duin.

Van der Duin’s best result came as she won the tempo race on the way to a haul of 109 points.

Maria Martins of Portugal completed the overall podium with 99 points, with her best performance a third place in the tempo race.

The final discipline of the omnium, the points race, was won by Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky, who placed sixth overall with 93 points.

There was home success in the women’s sprint, with Mathilde Gros of France taking gold and winning her first World Championship title by defeating Sophie Lea Friedrich of Germany in straight rides.

In the battle for bronze, Germany’s Emma Hinze overcame Laurine Van Riessen of the Netherlands, also in straight rides.

Four titles are set to be decided tomorrow, in the women’s 500m time trial, madison and individual pursuit and the men’s omnium.