'I was hit by a motorbike and had a pretty scary crash' – British world champion suffers broken back in horror training-ride incident

Harry Hudson Lidl Trek in the Peak District — (Image credit: Andy Jones)

Junior world champion Harry Hudson was hospitalised and suffered a spinal injury after being knocked off his bike during a training-ride collision with a motorcycle in the Catalonian city of Girona last week, he revealed on social media on Wednesday,

The accident happened several days ago, but the 18-year-old, who rides for the Lidl-Trek development team, only publicly shared news of the crash and his subsequent treatment in a social media post this morning.

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"After 24hrs in hospital I was released, unfortunately I have suffered a compression fractured in my T8 vertebra," the post continues. "I’m now at home recovering."

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At this stage we don’t know any details about long the injury will keep Hudson out of the saddle and sidelined for, but will keep updating this story as more news becomes available. For the moment, the young rider is keen to thank those who helped him at the scene and have been looking after him since.

"This weeks been pretty rough," he wrote. "But the support and help I’ve received from Lidl-Trek and Trinity Sports Management as well as other cyclists on the road immediately after the crash has been incredible."

The teenage sensation from the Peak District, who has been racing since he was 12, was Britain's first male junior road race world champion when he took the title in September last year, making history at the UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda.

The World Championships crown capped off an extraordinary 2025 season, which also saw the prodigious young rider take victories in the junior Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the junior CiCLE Classic.

Having recently clipped in as News & Features Writer for Cycling Weekly, Pat has spent decades in the saddle of road, gravel and mountain bikes pursuing interesting stories. En route he has ridden across Australia's Great Dividing Range, pedalled the Pirinexus route around the Catalan Pyrenees, raced through the Norwegian mountains with 17,000 other competitors during the Birkebeinerrittet, fatbiked along the coast of Wales, explored the trails of the Canadian Yukon under the midnight sun and spent umpteen happy hours bikepacking and cycle-touring the lost lanes and hidden bridleways of the Peak District, Exmoor, Dartmoor, North Yorkshire and Scotland. He worked for Lonely Planet for 15 years as a writer and editor, contributed to Epic Rides of the World and has authored several books.