Cobbled Classics take their toll as crashes and injuries mount – Pro cycling injury list 2026

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.

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".

The dangerous roads of the cobbled Classics have seen plenty more names added to the 2026 injury list, with the Ronde van Brugge in particular seeing a host of riders falling victim to crashes.

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.

Alpecin-Premier Tech

• Luca Vergallito – Hip injury, Itzulia Basque Country (Apr 6)
• Lindsay De Vylder – Fractured hip, Paris-Nice (Mar 11)
• Henri Uhlig – Fractured collarbone, Volta a Catalunya (Mar 25)

Bahrain Victorious

• Daniel Skerl – Fractured colarbone, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)
• Robert Stannard – Fractured collarbone, Paris-Nice (Mar 12)
• Mathijs Paasschens – Fractured collarbone, Paris-Nice (Mar 11)

Cofidis

• Milan Fretin – Fractured elbow, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)
• Alex Kirsch – Fractured wrist and hand, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)
• Jenthe Biermans – Finger injury, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)
• 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

• Vincenzo Albanese – Fractured hand, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)
• Neilson Powless – Knee injury (Feb 25)

Flanders-Baloise

• Henri Vandenabeele – Fractured collarbone, Vuelta a Analucía (Feb 18)

Groupama FDJ-United

• Olivier Le Gac – Fractured femur, training (Jan 2)

Ineos Grenadiers

• Magnus Sheffield – Skin wound, Tour of Flanders (Apr 5)
• Michał Kwiatkowski – Thigh injury, Milan-San Remo (Mar 21)
• Ben Swift – Fractured pelvis, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)
• Tobias Foss – Fractured shoulder blade, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (Feb 4)

Jayco-AlUla

• Luka Mezgec – Fractured ribs, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)
• Amaury Capiot – Fractured collarbone and hip, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 25)
• Michael Matthews – Two fractured wrists, crash in training (Mar 5)

Lidl-Trek

• Thibau Nys, knee surgery (Mar 13)

Lotto-Intermarché

• Jasper De Buyst – Cardiac arrhythmia (Apr 1)
• Taco van der Hoorn – Knee surgery (Feb 13)
• Lars Craps – Knee surgery (Jan 31)

Movistar

• Pablo Castrillo – Hip injury, Paris-Nice (Mar 11)
• Nelson Oliveira – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 27)

NSN

• Oded Kogut – Fractured collarbone, wrist, Scheldeprijs (Apr 8)
• Stevie Williams – Quadriceps tendinopathy (Jun 17, 2025)

Picnic-PostNL

• Timo de Jong – Fractured wrist, GP Monseré (Mar 22)
• Timo Roosen – Fractured ribs and collarbone, pneumothorax, GP Monseré (Mar 22)
• 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

• Tom Pidcock – Knee and wrist injury, Volta a Catalunya (Mar 28)
• Chris Harper – Fractured collarbone, UAE Tour (Feb 22)

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe

• Jarrad Drizners – Fractured collarbone, scapula, Tour of Flanders (April 6)
• Adrien Boichis – Fractured elbow, Coppi e Bartali (Mar 29)
• Maxim Van Gils – Fractured pelvis, humerus, Clásica Jaén (Feb 16)
• Alexander Hajek – Fractured collarbone, crash, Vuelta a Andalucía (Feb 22)

Soudal-QuickStep

• Laurenz Rex – Knee injury, In Flanders Fields (Mar 29)
• Louis Vervaeke – Knee injury (Mar 24)

Tudor

• Matteo Trentin – Fractured collarbone, Tour of Flanders (Apr 6)
• 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

• Isaac del Toro – Leg injury, Itzulia Basque Country (Apr 8)
• Jan Christen – Fractured collarbone, Milan-San Remo (Mar 21)
• Tim Wellens – Fractured collarbone, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)
• Jhonatan Narváez – Fractured vertebrae, Tour Down Under (Jan 24)

Unibet Rose Rockets

• Rory Townsend – Fractured tibia, Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (Mar 1)

Visma-Lease a Bike

• Timo Kielich – Fractured collarbone, In Flanders Fields (Mar 29)
• Niklas Behrens – Heart surgery (Mar 13)

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.

AG Insurance-Soudal

• Kim Le Court-Pienaar – Fractured wrist, Tour of Flanders (Apr 5)

Cofidis

• Victorie Berteau, radius fracture, Tour of Flanders (Apr 6)

FDJ United-Suez

• Marie Le Net – Lumbar hernia, Feb 25

Fenix-Premier Tech

• Christina Schweinberger – Fractured hand, Ronde van Brugge (Mar 26)

Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi

• Debora Silvestri – Fractured scapula and ribs, Milan-San Remo (Mar 21)

Liv-AlUla-Jayco

• Silke Smulders – Fractured vertebrae, Setmana Valenciana (Feb 13)
• Caroline Andersson – Fractured arm, Tour of Flanders (April 5)

Movistar

• Marlen Reusser – Fracture of a lumbar vertebra, Tour of Flanders (Apr 5)

Ma Petite Entreprise

• Léa Stern – Fractured collarbone, training (Feb 4)

SD Worx-Protime

• Elena Cecchini – Broken little finger, Tour of Flanders (April 5)

UAE Team ADQ

• Brodie Chapman – Fractured pelvis, Tour of Flanders (Apr 6)

VolkerWessels

• Maud Rijnbeek – Fractured arm, Giro dell'Appennino (Mar 22)
• Quinty Schoens – Fractured collarbone, shoulder, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (Feb 28)