Cycling faces crashes: the 2026 injury list

Professional cycling is a spectacular yet brutal sport. Ridden at high speeds wearing little more than a helmet and a few centimeters of Lycra, every fall can turn into a nightmare of broken bones and weeks away from racing. The 2026 season is the clearest demonstration of this: injuries have been relentless, from the first day of racing until the middle of summer.

Back in January, at the Tour Down Under, an almost surreal episode had set the tone for the season: a kangaroo swooping into the peloton contributed to a series of crashes involving, among others, Jhonatan Narváez and his UAE Team Emirates-XRG teammate Jay Vine . From there, the injury crisis never stopped: from the Giro d'Italia to the Tour de Suisse, where Urška Žigart (AG Insurance-Soudal) suffered a fractured jaw after falling on a rough road surface. Training sessions also proved treacherous: Mara Roldan (Picnic PostNL), already recovering from a crash at the Giro, suffered a skull fracture during a training session in early July.

Several riders had to withdraw from the Tour de France before the Grande Boucle even got underway. Among them, Žigart herself, Cat Ferguson (Movistar)—who crashed at the Giro d'Italia—and the highly anticipated Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), forced to withdraw due to an infection following an elbow injury. And then there are those who started the Tour but were immediately forced to withdraw: such as Clément Berthet , who crashed in the team time trial in Barcelona on the first stage.

Below is a complete summary of the current injuries in the men's and women's peloton, including the team, type of injury, and date. This is crucial information for fantasy cycling fans: checking this list before selecting your riders can make the difference between victory and defeat.

INJURIES IN THE MEN'S PELOTON

Bahrain Victorious

Daniel Skerl – Fractured collarbone, Scheldeprijs (April 8)

Caja Rural-Seguros RGA

Eduard Prades – Fractured right tibia, Tour of Slovenia (June 18)

Alex Molenaar – Fractured finger, Tour de France stage 5 (July 8)

Cofidis

Oliver Knight – Spinal Decompression Surgery (June)

Damien Touzé – Ruptured spleen, abdominal trauma, fractured femur, Tour of Oman (February 10)

Decathlon CMA CGM

Gianluca Pollefliet – Elbow Injury, La Route d'Occitanie (June 18)

EF Education-EasyPost

Lukas Nerurkar – Broken and dislocated collarbone, fractured sternum, fractured vertebra, fractured rib and small punctured lung; hit by car during training in England (July 2)

Harry Sweeny – Knee surgery to remove an inflamed fold (April)

Groupama-FDJ United

Clément Berthet – Shoulder injury, crash on stage 1 of the Tour de France (July 4)

Jayco-AlUla

Andrea Vendrame – Fractures of three transverse processes of the lumbar region, Giro d'Italia (May 10)

Luka Mezgec – Fractured ribs, Scheldeprijs (April 8)

Amaury Capiot – Fractured collarbone and hip, Ronde van Brugge (March 25)

Lidl Trek

Harry Hudson – Fractured vertebra, collision with motorcycle during downhill training (May)

Albert Withen Philipsen – Head injury, crash during training at 80 km/h (May)

Modern Adventure Pro Cycling

Lucas Towers – Broken leg, Tour of Slovenia (June 18)

Netcompany Ineos

Josh Tarling – Broken Collarbone, Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (June 12)

Oscar Onley – Shoulder injury, Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (June 12)

Kim Heiduk – Fractured collarbone, Tour de Wallonie (June 6)

NSN

Guillaume Boivin – Fractured left scapula, Baloise Belgium Tour (June 21)

Krists Neilands – Concussion, Baloise Belgium Tour (21 June)

Stevie Williams – Quadriceps Tendinopathy (June 17, 2025)

Picnic-PostNL

Matt Dinham – Overuse leg injury, Tour de Suisse (June 17)

UAE Team Emirates-XRG

Jay Vine – Fractured elbow and concussion, Giro d'Italia (May 9)

Marc Soler – Pelvic fracture, Giro d'Italia (May 9)

UNO-X Mobility

Erlend Blikra – Fractured ribs and three fractures to his lumbar region, crashed on stage 1 of the Giro d'Italia but continued until stage 11 (May 8)

Visma-Lease a Bike

Wout van Aert – Infection following elbow injury in training (June)

Anton Schiffer – Fractured collarbone, training (June)

Christophe Laporte – Quadriceps tear, training (May)

Niklas Behrens – Heart surgery for heart rhythm problems (March 13)

INJURIES IN THE WOMEN'S PELOTON

AG Insurance-Soudal

Urška Žigart – Fractured jaw, Tour de Suisse (June 19)

Sarah Gigante – Surgery for complications related to femur fracture in 2025 (June)

Canyon-SRAM

Neve Bradbury – Surgery for iliac endofibrosis (mid-May)

Chloe Dygert – RED-S and surgery (last race, April)

EF Education-Oatly

Noemi Rüegg – Fractured shoulder, Vuelta Femenina (May 4)

FDJ United-SUEZ

Lauren Dickson – Broken collarbone, Tour de Suisse (June 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, fall in training (May)

Movistar

Cat Ferguson – Concussion and double ankle fracture, Giro d'Italia (May 30)

Picnic PostNL

Dilyxine Miermont – Multiple fractures, including elbow, pubic bone, and cervical spine, training (April)

Mara Roldan – Skull fracture, fall during training (July)

One-X Mobility

Kamilla Aasebø – Fractured jaw and elbow, Paris-Roubaix (April 12)

Photo: Sprint Cycling Agency