{"id":21386,"date":"2025-07-18T01:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tour-de-france-update-simmons-earns-second-top-10-stage-finish\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:06:09","slug":"tour-de-france-update-simmons-earns-second-top-10-stage-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tour-de-france-update-simmons-earns-second-top-10-stage-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France update: Simmons earns second top 10 stage finish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Durango's Quinn Simmons has had a great start to his 2025 WorldTour season riding for Lidl-Trek. (Courtesy Lidl-Trek)<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Quinn Simmons showed his speed in a relatively flat stage on Wednesday in the Tour de France. The Durangoan with the red, Hulk Hogan-style mustache finished ninth in Stage 11 of the Tour.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Simmons\u2019 second top 10 finish of the 2025 Tour after having zero in his previous two Tour appearances.<\/p>\n

Riding for Lidl-Trek, Simmons finished the 165.8-kilometer loop that started and finished in Toulouse, France, in ninth in three hours, 16 minutes and 49 seconds, 56 seconds behind stage winner Jonas Abrahamsen.<\/p>\n

Fellow Durangoan Sepp Kuss finished in 45th place in Stage 11, 3:28 behind Abrahamsen.<\/p>\n

Stage 12 was another mountain stage and the fortunes of the Durango riders flipped. Kuss proved his reputation as one of the best climbers in the peloton and Simmons struggled.<\/p>\n

Kuss, riding for Team Visma-Lease a Bike, finished 24th, while Simmons finished 85th on the 180.6 km stage that started in Auch, France, and ended in Hautacam, France.<\/p>\n

Tadej Poga\u010dar dominated the stage and pulled away on the mountains for a win in 4:21:19, 2:10 ahead of second-place Jonas Vingegaard. Kuss finished 13:30 behind Poga\u010dar; Simmons was 33:03 behind.<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar now leads the general classification after a dominant performance that went a long way toward the Slovenian capturing his fourth yellow jersey. He leads the Tour with a GC time of 45:22:51. Vingegaard is 3:31 behind in second and Remco Evenepoel is 4:45 behind in third.<\/p>\n

Kuss is 21st in the GC, 33 minutes behind and Simmons is 46th, 1:08:04 behind.<\/p>\n

Simmons\u2019 Lidl-Trek teammate Jonathan Milan still leads the points classification over Poga\u010dar for the green jersey. Poga\u010dar leads the king of the mountain standings, although he is tied with second-place Lenny Martinez with 27 points. Evenepoel leads the youth classification by 49 seconds over Florian Lipowitz.<\/p>\n

Kuss\u2019 Visma-Lease a Bike squad has a commanding 17:15 lead in the team classification over Poga\u010dar\u2019s UAE Team Emirates-XRG.<\/p>\n

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remains inside top 25 in general classification<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[657,28,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cycling","tag-headlines","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77288,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions\/77288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21386"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}