Professional cycling is a brutal sport that can rule out anyone, from the world's best rider to a Continental-level domestique, for months in just a split second.
Crashes are part and parcel of racing and training, which means that every team in the peloton has a list of injured riders to look after at some point during the season. 2026 is no different, with plenty of riders suffering various fractures and injuries in the opening months of the season.
It's only mid-March, and dozens of riders are already out after a number of crashes hit the pre-season stage races as well as Opening Weekend. The men's and women's Strade Bianche were fortunately free from the major pile-ups we saw in Belgium, so whilst hosts of riders DNFed the brutal gravel race, there aren't any dramatic injuries to report.
Rider safety has been an increasingly prominent topic in recent years, but the number of crashes so far in 2026 points to a wider issue still being present.
"It’s just so dangerous now, and it’s getting worse and worse, with the speed of the racing and the aggressive way they’re racing," Sean Kelly wrote in a recent Cyclingnews column. "Everybody seems to be fighting for every centimetre of road, and nobody is backing off at all. So you get all these crashes and all these broken bones. The issue has to be looked at immediately."
There have also been concerns about race safety and quality, with Jonas Vingegaard complaining that the opening stage of Paris-Nice featured roads "not worthy of a WorldTour race".
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
Injuries per team in the men's peloton.
Bahrain Victorious
- Vlad Van Mechelen – Fractured collarbone, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)
Cofidis
- Oliver Knight – Fractured hand, training (Feb 10)
- Damien Touzé – Ruptured spleen, abdominal trauma, fractured femur, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)
- Sergio Samitier – Fractured radius, scaphoid, Tour of Oman (Feb 9)
Decathlon-CMA CGM
- Robbe Ghys – Fractured collarbone, UAE Tour (Feb 19)
- Tiesj Benoot – Herniated disc (Feb 19)
EF Education-EasyPost
- Neilson Powless – Knee injury (Feb 25)
Euskaltel-Euskadi
- Txomin Juaristi – Fractured collarbone, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)
Flanders-Baloise
- Henri Vandenabeele – Fractured collarbone, Vuelta a Analucía (Feb 18)
Groupama FDJ-United
- Josh Kench – Fractured ribs, Tour of Oman (Feb 8)
- Olivier Le Gac – Fractured femur, training (Jan 2)
Ineos Grenadiers
- Ben Swift – Fractured pelvis, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)
- Tobias Foss – Fractured shoulder blade, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)
Jayco AlUla
- Michael Matthews – Two fractured wrists, crash in training (Mar 5)
Lidl-Trek
- Mads Pedersen – Fractured collarbone, wrist, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)
- Mattias Skjelmose – Tenosynovitis of the right wrist, DNS Paris-Nice (Mar 6)
Lotto-Intermarché
- Taco van der Hoorn – Knee surgery (Feb 13)
- Lionel Taminiaux – Fractured collarbone, Cadel Great Ocean Road Race (Feb 1)
- Lars Craps – Knee surgery (Jan 31)
Movistar
- Nelson Oliveira – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 27)
- Cian Uijtdebroeks – Fractured elbow, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 6)
NSN
- Jake Stewart – Fractured collarbone, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)
- Stevie Williams – Quadriceps tendinopathy (Jun 17, 2025)
Picnic-PostNL
- Warren Barguil – Fractured pelvis, ribs, collarbone, Tour des Alpes-Maritimes (Feb 22)
- Gijs Leemreize – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 14)
- Nils Eekhoff – Iliac artery surgery (Jan 8)
Pinarello-Q36.5
- Chris Harper – Fractured collarbone, UAE Tour (Feb 22)
Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
- Maxim Van Gils – Fractured pelvis, humerus, Clásica Jaén (Feb 16)
- Alexander Hajek – Fractured collarbone, crash in Vuelta a Andalucía (Feb 22)
Tudor
- Stefan Küng – Fractured femur, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)
- Marius Mayrhofer – Fractured collarbone, ribs, shoulder blade, Tour Down Under (Jan 21)
UAE Team Emirates-XRG
- Tim Wellens – Fractured collarbone, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)
- Mikkel Bjerg – Fractured shoulder, hand, Tour Down Under (Jan 26)
- Jhonatan Narváez – Fractured vertebrae, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)
- Vegard Stake Laengen – Rib injury, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)
Unibet Rose Rockets
- Rory Townsend – Fractured tibia, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)
Visma-Lease a Bike
- Niklas Behrens – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 23)
- Bart Lemmen – Fractured wrist, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)
No team
- Chris Froome – Pericardial rupture, fractured ribs, collapsed long, vertebrae fracture, training crash (Aug 27, 2025)
Injuries in the women's peloton
Injuries per team in the women's peloton.
FDJ United-Suez
- Marie Le Net – Lumbar hernia, Feb 25
Liv-AlUla-Jayco
- Silke Smulders – Fractured vertebrae, Setmana Valenciana (Feb 13)
Movistar
- Marlen Reusser – Lacerations to knee and hand, UAE Tour (Feb 6)
Ma Petite Entreprise
- Léa Stern – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 4)
VolkerWessels
- Quinty Schoens – Fractured collarbone, shoulder, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)
