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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n In fact, we count over 40 riders currently sidelined through injury, as of the start of March. Rider safety has been an increasingly prominent topic in recent years but these figures would suggest there’s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n “It\u2019s just so dangerous now, and it\u2019s getting worse and worse, with the speed of the racing and the aggressive way they\u2019re racing,” Sean Kelly wrote in his most recent Cyclingnews column<\/a>. “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.”<\/p>\n 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. Here’s the rundown of all the ongoing injuries keeping riders out of racing at the WorldTour, Women’s WorldTour<\/a> and ProTeam levels.<\/p>\n Injuries in the men’s peloton<\/p>\n Injuries per team in the men’s peloton.<\/p>\n Bahrain VictoriousVlad Van Mechelen \u2013 Fractured collarbone, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)CofidisOliver Knight \u2013 Fractured hand, training (Feb 10)Damien Touz\u00e9 \u2013 Ruptured spleen, abdominal trauma<\/a>, fractured femur, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)Sergio Samitier \u2013 Fractured radius, scaphoid, Tour of Oman (Feb 9)Decathlon-CMA CGMEF Education-EasyPostEuskaltel-EuskadiTxomin Juaristi \u2013 Fractured collarbone, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)Flanders-BaloiseHenri Vandenabeele \u2013 Fractured collarbone, Vuelta a Analuc\u00eda (Feb 18)Groupama FDJ-UnitedJosh Kench \u2013 Fractured ribs, Tour of Oman (Feb 8)Oliver Le Gac \u2013 Fractured femur, training (Jan 2)Ineos GrenadiersBen Swift \u2013 Fractured pelvis<\/a>, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)Tobias Foss \u2013 Fractured shoulder blade, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)Lidl-TrekLotto-Intermarch\u00e9Taco van der Hoorn\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Knee surgery (Feb 13)Lionel Taminiaux \u2013 Fractured collarbone, Cadel Great Ocean Road Race (Feb 1)Lars Craps \u2013 Knee surgery (Jan 31)MovistarNSN Jake Stewart \u2013 Fractured collarbone, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)Stevie Williams \u2013 Quadriceps tendinopathy (Jun 17, 2025)Picnic-PostNLWarren Barguil \u2013 Fractured pelvis, ribs, collarbone, Tour des Alpes-Maritimes (Feb 22)Gijs Leemreize \u2013 Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 14)Nils Eekhoff \u2013 Iliac artery surgery (Jan 8)Pinarello-Q36.5Chris Harper \u2013 Fractured collarbone, UAE Tour (Feb 22)Red Bull-Bora-HansgroheTotalEnergiesLorrenzo Manzin \u2013 Concussion, Classic Var (Feb 21)TudorStefan K\u00fcng \u2013 Fractured femur, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)Marius Mayrhofer \u2013 Fractured collarbone, ribs, shoulder blade, Tour Down Under (Jan 21)UAE Team Emirates-XRGTim Wellens \u2013 Fractured collarbone<\/a>, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)Mikkel Bjerg \u2013 Fractured shoulder, hand, Tour Down Under (Jan 26)Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez \u2013 Fractured vertebrae<\/a>, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)Vegard Stake Laengen \u2013 Rib injury, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)Unibet Rose RocketsRory Townsend \u2013 Fractured tibia, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)Visma-Lease a BikeNiklas Behrens \u2013 Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 23)Bart Lemmen \u2013 Fractured wrist, Tour of Oman (Feb 10)No teamChris Froome \u2013 Pericardial rupture<\/a>, fractured ribs, collapsed long, vertebrae fracture, training crash (Aug 27, 2025)Injuries in the women’s peloton<\/p>\n Injuries per team in the women’s peloton.<\/p>\n FDJ United-SuezMarie Le Net \u2013 Lumbar hernia, Feb 25Liv-AlUla-JaycoSilke Smulders \u2013 Fractured vertebrae, Setmana Valenciana (Feb 13)MovistarMa Petite EntrepriseL\u00e9a Stern \u2013 Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 4)VolkerWesselsQuinty Schoens \u2013 Fractured collarbone, shoulder, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional cycling is a brutal sport which can rule out anyone, from the world’s best rider to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-457172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}