Quinn Simmons wins the Japan Cup after winning head-to-head with Ben Healy

Quinn Simmonscurrent American cycling champion and member of the team Lidl-Trekclaimed victory in the Japan Cupa one-day test held on a 144.2 kilometer route starting and finishing in Utsunomiya.

Simmons achieved victory by beating the Irishman in the final sprint Ben Healy, EF Education-EasyPosttogether with whom he ran the last 28 kilometers, both of them surpassing at the end a chasing group of five runners who entered just over one minute and ten seconds behind.

The American, who achieves his tenth victory as a professional and becomes the eleventh youngest to win the test in its 33 editions, it was shown very combative from the start, accelerating at the front of the peloton in the first kilometers of the Japanese route.

Later they formed various getawaysone of them with the presence of his brother Colby (EF Education-EsyPost) until With 28 kilometers to go the winner and Healy distanced themselves of one of those who ultimately became their pursuers, with whom they had broken the platoon very shortly before.