Jonas Vingegaard ends 2026 season after broken collarbone, will miss World Championships

Jonas Vingegaard will not race again this season as he continues his recovery from a broken collarbone sustained in July’s Tour de France.

The decision means the Dane will miss next month’s World Championships in Montreal, as well as October’s European Championships in Slovenia. He won both this season’s Giro d’Italia and last year’s Vuelta a Espana.

The 29-year-old suffered the injury on stage 15, when sitting second on general classification, landing heavily on his right-side when falling on a high-speed descent towards the final climb of the day at Plateau de Solaison.

“(Vingegaard) is still experiencing the effects of the collarbone fracture he sustained in his crash in the Tour de France,” his Visma-Lease a Bike team said in a statement released on Monday morning.

“As a result, it is not possible for him to work towards new racing goals for 2026 in the short term. (He) will focus on his recovery and training in the coming period. With this, he hopes to lay the foundations for another successful season.”

Vingegaard added: “After a long and intense racing period, a recovery period was planned after the Tour de France anyway. Due to the collarbone injury, the start of my training has been delayed and it is not possible for me to get back to top level in the coming period.

“The focus is on preparing optimally for the goals of the 2027 season. I will discuss these specific goals with the team in the coming period.”

Marc Reef, the team’s head of racing, indicated that the number of race days that Vingegaard had already completed in 2026 — winning the Giro d’Italia, Paris-Nice, and the Volta a Catalunya — had played a factor in the decision.

The Vuelta a Espana, the year’s final Grand Tour, begins in Monaco on Saturday, with five-time Tour champion Tadej Pogacar the overwhelming favourite the win the race for the first time.