Quinn Simmons

Quinn Simmons
	Quinn Simmons at the 2020 La Flèche Wallonne
Personal information
Born	May 8, 2001 (age 20); Durango, Colorado
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
Major wins
	Stage races Tour de Wallonie (2021)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing United States
World Championships

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]