Raced at high speeds with only a helmet and some lycra for protection, cycling is a dangerous sport where split-second crashes can have dramatic consequences in the form of injuries and fractures that can rule riders out for weeks or months.
Given crashes are, unfortunately, part of racing and training that means every team in the peloton has a list of injured riders to look after at some point during the season. Plus, even though rider safety has been an increasingly prominent topic in recent years, the number of crashes so far in 2026 points to the issue still being as present as ever.
Right from the beginning of the season, there have been constant reminders, with a kangaroo among the peloton at the men's Tour Down Under contributing tough opening months for riders like Jhonatan Narváez and fellow UAE team Emirates-XRG rider Jay Vine. The flow of fractures and injuries then continued, right through to the Giro d'Italia and, more recently, the Tour de Suisse, where Urška Žigart (AG Insurance-Soudal) fractured her jaw. Then there are also the training crashes, including another tough turn for Mara Roldan (Picnic PostNL), who was on the comeback from a Giro crash and then at the start of July was thrown another curve ball as she fractured her skull.
A number of riders have had to concede that their Tour de France ambitions were over before the racing even began, including Žigart, Cat Ferguson (Movistar) – who crashed at the Giro d'Italia – and Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), who ended up with an infection after injuring an elbow. Then there are some who have had their race ended before it really got going, including Clément Berthet who fell on the very first day in the Barcelona team time trial.
We've compiled all currently injured riders in one place with a log of their injuries, as well as the race and date they were sustained, which we'll update periodically. Some riders listed here may have recovered from their injuries, but are yet to return to racing.
Here's the rundown of all the ongoing injuries keeping riders out of racing at the WorldTour, Women's WorldTour and ProTeam levels.
Injuries in the men's peloton
Bahrain Victorious
- Daniel Skerl – Fractured collarbone, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)
Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
- Eduard Prades - Right tibia fracture , Tour of Slovenia (Jun 18)
- Alex Molenaar - Fractured finger, Tour de France stage 5 (Jul 8)
Cofidis
- Oliver Knight – Spinal decompression surgery (Jun)
- Damien Touzé – Ruptured spleen, abdominal trauma , fractured femur, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)
Decathlon CMA CGM
- Gianluca Pollefliet - Elbow injury, La Route d'Occitanie (Jun 18)
EF Education-EasyPost
- Harry Sweeny - Knee operation to remove inflamed plica (April)
Groupama-FDJ United
- Clément Berthet - Shoulder injury, Tour de France stage 1 crash (Jul 4)
Jayco-AlUla
- Andrea Vendrame - Fractures to three transverse processes in lower back, Giro d'Italia (May 10)
- Luka Mezgec – Fractured ribs, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)
- Amaury Capiot – Fractured collarbone and hip, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)
Lidl-Trek
- Harry Hudson - Fractured vertebra, training crash with motorbike (May)
- Albert Withen Philipsen - Head injury, training crash (May)
Modern Adventure Pro Cycling
- Lucas Towers - Lower leg fracture , Tour of Slovenia (Jun 18)
Netcompany Ineos
- Josh Tarling - Broken collarbone , Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Jun 12)
- Oscar Onley - Shoulder injury , Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Jun 12)
- Kim Heiduk - Fractured collarbone, Tour de Wallonie (Jun 6)
NSN
- Guillaume Boivin – Fractured left scapular, Baloise Belgium Tour (Jun 21)
- Krists Neilands - Concussion, Baloise Belgium Tour (Jun 21)
- Stevie Williams – Quadriceps tendinopathy (Jun 17, 2025)
Picnic-PostNL
- Matt Dinham - Overuse injury in lower leg, Tour de Suisse (Jun 17)
UAE Team Emirates-XRG
- Jay Vine - Fractured elbow and concussion , Giro d'Italia (May 9)
- Marc Soler - Fractured pelvis , Giro d'Italia (May 9)
UNO-X Mobility
- Erlend Blikra - Fractured ribs and three fractures in lower back , Giro d'Italia stage 1 crash but rode on to stage 11 (May 8)
Visma-Lease a Bike
- Wout van Aert - Infection following elbow injury in training (Jun)
- Anton Schiffer - Fractured collarbone, training (Jun)
- Christophe Laporte - Quadricep tear, training (May)
- Niklas Behrens – Heart surgery (Mar 13)
Injuries in the women's peloton
Injuries per team in the women's peloton.
AG Insurance-Soudal
- Urška Žigart - Fractured jaw , Tour de Suisse (Jun 19)
- Sarah Gigante - Surgery to relieve ongoing issue after broken femur in 2025 (Jun)
Canyon-SRAM
- Neve Bradbury – Iliac endofibrosis surgery (Mid-May)
EF Education-Oatly
- Noemi Rüegg - Fractured shoulde r, Vuelta Femenina (May 4)
FDJ United-SUEZ
- Lauren Dickson - Broken collarbone , Tour de Suisse (Jun 20)
Fenix-Premier Tech
- Aniek van Alphen - Fractured collarbone, Vuelta a Burgos Feminas (May 23)
Human Powered Health
- Petra Stiasny – Fractured jaw, ear and shoulder injuries , training (May)
Movistar
- Cat Ferguson - Concussion and two ankle fractures , Giro d'Italia (May 30)
Picnic PostNL
- Dilyxine Miermont - Multiple fractures including elbow, pubic and cervical, training (April)
- Mara Roldan - Fractured skull, crash while training (July)
Uno-X Mobility
- Kamilla Aasebø – Fractures to jaw and elbow, Paris-Roubaix (Apr 12)
