Professional cycling is a brutal sport which 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 month and a half since top-level racing began in Australia.
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“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 his most 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.”
Injuries in the men’s peloton
Injuries per team in the men’s peloton.
Bahrain VictoriousVlad Van Mechelen – Fractured collarbone, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)CofidisOliver 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 CGMEF Education-EasyPostEuskaltel-EuskadiTxomin Juaristi – Fractured collarbone, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)Flanders-BaloiseHenri Vandenabeele – Fractured collarbone, Vuelta a Analucía (Feb 18)Groupama FDJ-UnitedJosh Kench – Fractured ribs, Tour of Oman (Feb 8)Oliver Le Gac – Fractured femur, training (Jan 2)Ineos GrenadiersBen Swift – Fractured pelvis, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)Tobias Foss – Fractured shoulder blade, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)Lidl-TrekLotto-IntermarchéTaco van der Hoorn – Knee surgery (Feb 13)Lionel Taminiaux – Fractured collarbone, Cadel Great Ocean Road Race (Feb 1)Lars Craps – Knee surgery (Jan 31)MovistarNSN Jake Stewart – Fractured collarbone, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)Stevie Williams – Quadriceps tendinopathy (Jun 17, 2025)Picnic-PostNLWarren 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-Q36.5Chris Harper – Fractured collarbone, UAE Tour (Feb 22)Red Bull-Bora-HansgroheTotalEnergiesLorrenzo Manzin – Concussion, Classic Var (Feb 21)TudorStefan Küng – Fractured femur, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)Marius Mayrhofer – Fractured collarbone, ribs, shoulder blade, Tour Down Under (Jan 21)UAE Team Emirates-XRGTim 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 RocketsRory Townsend – Fractured tibia, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)Visma-Lease a BikeNiklas Behrens – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 23)Bart Lemmen – Fractured wrist, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)No teamChris 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-SuezMarie Le Net – Lumbar hernia, Feb 25Liv-AlUla-JaycoSilke Smulders – Fractured vertebrae, Setmana Valenciana (Feb 13)MovistarMa Petite EntrepriseLéa Stern – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 4)VolkerWesselsQuinty Schoens – Fractured collarbone, shoulder, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)