Soudal Quick-Step riders Mikel Landa and Gil Gelders were forced to withdraw from Itzulia Basque Country after a crash on Stage 5; the event’s penultimate stage.
The crash took place at the foot of the Urkiola – a category 1 climb – with around 100km of the stage left to go. Landa was seen on camera being stretchered away into an ambulance.
Landa, who was the runner-up at the Volta a Catalunya last month, was taken to hospital where X-rays revealed that he has suffered a fracture to his clavicle.
Gelders, meanwhile, was “given medical attention on the spot and was treated for abrasions”.
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) sustained a broken collarbone and scapula, while Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) sustained a cervical and two thoracic spine vertebral body fractures.
Gonzalo Serrano (Movistar) was also caught up in the crash and Movistar later confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) he abandoned the race.
The stage was won by Romain Gregoire (Groupama – FDJ), with Orluis Aular (Caja Rural – Seguros RGA) in second and Maximilian Schachmann (BORA – hansgrohe) third.