{"id":488342,"date":"2026-03-21T22:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488342\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:41:16","slug":"debora-silvestri-crash-italian-taken-to-hospital-after-womens-milan-san-remo-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/488342\/","title":{"rendered":"Debora Silvestri crash: Italian taken to hospital after women’s Milan-San Remo crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian Debora Silvestri has been taken to hospital after a serious crash during the women’s Milan-San Remo one-day classic.<\/p>\n

The incident, in which a Laboral Kutxa rider went headfirst over a roadside barrier and fell several metres onto a lower section of road in trying to take avoiding action, happened on the descent of the famous Cipressa climb and involved a number of competitors.<\/p>\n

Poland’s Kasia Niewiadoma and Kim le Court, from Mauritius, were also involved in the pile-up.<\/p>\n

“Debora Silvestri has suffered a fall on the Cipressa descent,” said her Laboral Kutxa team., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“She is conscious and on her way to the hospital to receive care.”<\/p>\n

They later added:, external<\/a> “She will remain hospitalised for the next few hours under medical supervision, and further tests will be conducted to assess the extent of the injuries.”<\/p>\n

Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky held off Switzerland’s Noemi Ruegg in a sprint for the line to win the 156km women’s race, with the men’s race in the first Monument of the season under way. <\/p>\n

“I hope everyone is OK,” said Lopecky when she addressed the crash after the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian Debora Silvestri has been taken to hospital after a serious crash during the women’s Milan-San Remo one-day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-488342","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\/488342","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=488342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}