2026 pro cycling injury list – All the riders currently out of racing

Marc Hirschi (Tudor) and Lorenzo Finn (Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) are the newest riders within the professional peloton to be sidelined as a result of crash accidents. Hirschi crashed throughout La Flèche Wallonne, whereas Finn fell throughout stage 3 of the Tour of the Alps.

Hirschi suffered a damaged collarbone, whereas Finn broke his wrist. Damien Howson (Pinarello-Q36.5) additionally suffered a damaged collarbone within the Tour of the Alps.

Raced at excessive speeds with solely a helmet and a few lycra for defense, biking is an more and more harmful sport, the place split-second crashes can have dramatic results with accidents and fractures that may rule riders out for weeks or months.

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Crashes are half and parcel of racing and coaching, which signifies that each group within the peloton has an inventory of injured riders to take care of in some unspecified time in the future through the season. 2026 is not any completely different, with loads of riders struggling varied fractures and accidents within the opening months of the season.

Rider security has been an more and more outstanding matter lately, however the variety of crashes to date in 2026 factors to a wider challenge nonetheless being current.

The Spring Classics are all the time notably harmful, with the tense racing and technical, usually cobbled routes primed for crashes and incidents. Yearly, we see a number of riders have to chop their spring brief as a result of accidents.

This yr, the cobbled Classics positively took their toll, with accidents for Marlen Reusser, Kim Le Court docket-Pienaar and Stefan Küng among the many riders who suffered damaged bones and season-interrupting accidents through the Classics.

Paris-Roubaix, usually often called essentially the most harmful Basic, was truly sparingly low on severe accidents this yr. Dozens of riders, together with Florian Vermeersch and Chloé Dygert, picked up knocks and abrasions, however the severe accidents had been comparatively restricted. That stated, one rider did come away with a fractured jaw and different damaged bones.

Matteo Jorgenson suffered a damaged collarbone in a crash through the Amstel Gold Race, and noticed his entire Ardennes Classics marketing campaign evaporate.

Away from the Classics, just a few excessive profile GC riders are out, together with Isaac del Toro who injured his thigh muscle at Itzulia Basque Nation, while Tom Pidcock was out after a nasty crash on the Volta a Catalunya, however is again in motion.

We have compiled all at the moment injured riders in a single place with a log of their accidents, in addition to the race and date they had been sustained, which we’ll replace periodically. Some riders listed right here could have recovered from their accidents, however are but to return to racing.

This is the rundown of all the continued accidents preserving riders out of racing on the WorldTour, Ladies’s WorldTour and ProTeam ranges.

Accidents within the males’s peloton

Alpecin-Premier Tech

Luca Vergallito – Hip damage, Itzulia Basque Nation (Apr 6)Lindsay De Vylder – Fractured hip, Paris-Good (Mar 11)Henri Uhlig – Fractured collarbone, Volta a Catalunya (Mar 25)

Bahrain Victorious

Daniel Skerl – Fractured colarbone, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)Robert Stannard – Fractured collarbone, Paris-Good (Mar 12)Mathijs Paasschens – Fractured collarbone, Paris-Good (Mar 11)

Cofidis

Milan Fretin – Fractured elbow, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)Alex Kirsch – Fractured wrist and hand, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)Jenthe Biermans – Finger damage, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)Oliver Knight – Fractured hand, coaching (Feb 10)Damien Touzé – Ruptured spleen, belly trauma, fractured femur, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)Sergio Samitier – Fractured radius, scaphoid, Tour of Oman (Feb 9)

Decathlon CMA CGM

EF Training-EasyPost

Vincenzo Albanese – Fractured hand, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)Neilson Powless – Knee damage (Feb 25)

Flanders-Baloise

Henri Vandenabeele – Fractured collarbone, Vuelta a Analucía (Feb 18)

Groupama FDJ-United

Olivier Le Gac – Fractured femur, coaching (Jan 2)

Ineos Grenadiers

Victor Langellotti – potential concussion, Tour of the Alps (Apr 22)Magnus Sheffield – Pores and skin wound, Tour of Flanders (Apr 5)Michał Kwiatkowski – Thigh damage, Milan-San Remo (Mar 21)Ben Swift – Fractured pelvis, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)Tobias Foss – Fractured shoulder blade, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)

Jayco-AlUla

Lidl-Trek

Thibau Nys, knee surgical procedure (Mar 13)

Lotto-Intermarché

Jasper De Buyst – Cardiac arrhythmia (Apr 1)Taco van der Hoorn – Knee surgical procedure (Feb 13)Lars Craps – Knee surgical procedure (Jan 31)

Movistar

Pablo Castrillo – Hip damage, Paris-Good (Mar 11)

NSN

Guillaume Boivin – Fractured scapula, Paris-Roubaix (Apr 12)Oded Kogut – Fractured collarbone, wrist, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)Stevie Williams – Quadriceps tendinopathy (Jun 17, 2025)

Picnic-PostNL

Timo de Jong – Fractured wrist, GP Monseré (Mar 22)Timo Roosen – Fractured ribs and collarbone, pneumothorax, GP Monseré (Mar 22)Gijs Leemreize – Fractured collarbone, coaching (Feb 14)Nils Eekhoff – Iliac artery surgical procedure (Jan 8)

Pinarello-Q36.5

Damien Howson – Fractured collarbone, Tour of the Alps (Apr 22)

Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

Lorenzo Finn – Damaged wrist, Tour of the Alps (Apr 22)Jarrad Drizners – Fractured collarbone, scapula, Tour of Flanders (April 6)Adrien Boichis – Fractured elbow, Coppi e Bartali (Mar 29)Maxim Van Gils – Fractured pelvis, humerus, Clásica Jaén (Feb 16)Alexander Hajek – Fractured collarbone, crash, Vuelta a Andalucía (Feb 22)

Soudal-QuickStep

Laurenz Rex – Knee damage, In Flanders Fields (Mar 29)Louis Vervaeke – Knee damage (Mar 24)

Tudor

Marc Hirschi – Damaged collarbone, Flèche Wallonne (Apr 22)Matteo Trentin – Fractured collarbone, Tour of Flanders (Apr 6)Stefan Küng – Fractured femur, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)

UAE Crew Emirates-XRG

Isaac del Toro – Leg damage, Itzulia Basque Nation (Apr 8)Jan Christen – Fractured collarbone, Milan-San Remo (Mar 21)Jhonatan Narváez – Fractured vertebrae, Tour Down Underneath (Jan 24)

Unibet Rose Rockets

Rory Townsend – Fractured tibia, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)

Visma-Lease a Bike

Matteo Jorgenson – Fractured collarbone in Amstel Gold Race (Apr 19)Timo Kielich – Fractured collarbone, In Flanders Fields (Mar 29)Niklas Behrens – Coronary heart surgical procedure (Mar 13)

No group

Chris Froome – Pericardial rupture, fractured ribs, collapsed lengthy, vertebrae fracture, coaching crash (Aug 27, 2025)

Accidents within the ladies’s peloton

Accidents per group within the ladies’s peloton.

AG Insurance coverage-Soudal

Kim Le Court docket-Pienaar – Fractured wrist, Tour of Flanders (Apr 5)Justine Ghekiere – Unspecified accidents, Milan-San Remo (Mar 21)

Cofidis

Victorie Berteau, radius fracture, Tour of Flanders (Apr 6)

FDJ United-Suez

Fenix-Premier Tech

Christina Schweinberger – Fractured hand, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 26)

Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi

Debora Silvestri – Fractured scapula and ribs, Milan-San Remo (Mar 21)

Liv-AlUla-Jayco

Caroline Andersson – Fractured arm, Tour of Flanders (April 5)

Movistar

Marlen Reusser – Fracture of a lumbar vertebra, Tour of Flanders (Apr 5)

Ma Petite Entreprise

SD Worx-Protime

Elena Cecchini – Damaged little finger, Tour of Flanders (April 5)

UAE Crew ADQ

Brodie Chapman – Fractured pelvis, Tour of Flanders (Apr 6)

Uno-X Mobility

Kamilla Aasebø – Fractures to jaw and elbow, Paris-Roubaix (Apr 12)

VolkerWessels

Maud Rijnbeek – Fractured arm, Giro dell’Appennino (Mar 22)Quinty Schoens – Fractured collarbone, shoulder, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)