Quinn Simmons
![]() Quinn Simmons at the 2020 La Flèche Wallonne | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Durango, Colorado | May 8, 2001|||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Trek–Segafredo | |||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
Amateur team | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Lux–Sideshow p/b Specialized | |||||||||||||
Professional team | ||||||||||||||
2020– | Trek–Segafredo[1] | |||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Quinn Simmons (born May 8, 2001) is an American road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Trek–Segafredo.[2]
Career[]
Simmons' first sport was ski mountaineering, for which he won the bronze medal in the cadet category in the 2017 World Championships.[3] After switching to road cycling, he won the 2019 world junior road race championships, and the 2018 US junior national road race and time trial championships.
On July 22, 2021, Simmons took his first professional victory on Stage 3 of the Tour de Wallonie, taking the overall lead in the process. He managed to maintain his lead until the race's conclusion to win his first professional stage race.[4]
Simmons rode in the 2021 Vuelta a España, his first grand tour. On stage 16 he got involved in the first serious breakaway attempt of his career, but being a flat stage the sprinter's teams reduced the advantage and pulled them back into the peloton in the final kilometers of the race.[5] He had his first serious opportunity to claim a grand tour stage win in stage 19 being involved in a breakaway of twenty-four riders. This group would continuously be reduced, falling to eleven and eventually just seven riders as the race approached the finish line. Simmons was among them but had to settle for the final podium position behind Rui Oliveira and Magnus Cort.
Controversy[]
On September 30, 2020, Simmons was suspended indefinitely by Trek–Segafredo for actions on Twitter, where he used a black hand emoji that Trek–Segafredo considered racially insensitive and stated support of the Trump presidency. In a subsequent apology Simmons denied racist intent.[6] Trek–Segafredo reinstated Simmons to the team that November. At a press conference following his reinstatement, Simmons disputed the suspension as undeserved and "wrong."[7]
Major results[]
- 2018
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships
- Saarland Trofeo
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 1st
Mountains classification Ronde des Vallées
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem Junioren
- 7th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
- 2019
- UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Overall SPIE Internationale Juniorendriedaagse
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st Stages 1, 2 (ITT) & 4
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st Stages 2b (ITT) & 3
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Keizer der Juniores
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st Stages 2a (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem Junioren
- Tour du Pays de Vaud
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st Stage 2b (ITT)
- 1st
- 2020
- 2nd Overall Tour de Hongrie
- 6th Bretagne Classic
- 2021
- 1st
Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- 10th Classic Sud-Ardèche
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]
Grand Tour | 2021 |
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124 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References[]
- ^ "Trek-Segafredo announce complete 2020 men's roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. November 9, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- ^ "Trek – Segafredo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 2, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ^ "Sprint Race – 2017 Skimo Worlds – Feb 28: Quinn Simmons claims bronze for USA, Arnold and Galicia win senior titles". . March 17, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
- ^ "Tour de Wallonie: Quinn Simmons wins stage 3 in Érezée". CyclingNews. July 22, 2021. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
- ^ "Quinn Simmons Chases Win and Form in Vuelta a España Breakaway". Velo News by Andrew Hood. August 31, 2021.
- ^ Long, Jonny (October 2, 2020). "Quinn Simmons issues apology, says tweet was not racist". CyclingWeekly. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
- ^ Frattini, Kirsten (February 26, 2021). "Quinn Simmons: I did not deserve to be suspended". CyclingNews. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
External links[]
- Quinn Simmons at ProCyclingStats
- 2001 births
- Living people
- American male cyclists
- People from Durango, Colorado