Italian rider Debora Silvestri is recovering in hospital after breaking five ribs in an horrific crash in Milan-San Remo Donne at the weekend.
The Laboral Kutxa-Fundaçion Euskadi rider, who also sustained a micro-fracture in her shoulder, somersaulted over a guardrail on the descent of the Cipressa, with around 20km remaining of the one-day Classic race. Accompanied by her bicycle, she was thrown several metres at speed and landed well below road level on an adjoining ramp.
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“Thank you for the many messages I’ve received,” she wrote. “Definitely not the ending I imagined… I’m doing pretty well, with five ribs and a micro fracture in my scapula… it definitely could have been worse.
Silvestri, who won the GP Ciudad de Eibar last year (her second and biggest pro win, which saw her outsprint the weekend’s CiCLE Classic winner Noémie Thomson) had enjoyed a promising start to the 2026 season, with high placings in the Trofeo Binissalem-Antratx and the Pionera Race SCV. But she will now be out for some weeks as she sets about her recovery from this traumatic crash at Milan-San Remo Donne.
