Multi-discipline star Blanca Kata Vas (SD Worx) is suffering a premature setback as the Cyclocross season is in full swing and surgery is required for a broken collarbone after a training crash.

A young Hungarian had surgery on his collarbone the night he was injured in Herzegovina, Belgium. This requires at least a few weeks of recovery time and could have an impact on her CX season before it starts.

"Unfortunately, Blanka Vas crashed during a cyclocross training session today," SD Worx said on Twitter before X. "I'm going to have surgery on my collarbone tonight. get well soon, blanca!"

Vas made a big step up in terms of road performance in 2023, winning the first women's World Tour titles at the Tour de Switzerland and Giro Donne, becoming the highest-ranked U23 in the World Championship road race and winning the Rainbow jersey.

She opened a Cyclocross account at GP Oisterwijk last Sunday, winning ahead of Aniek van Alphen (Cyclocross Reds) and Denise Betsema (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal).

The Vas crash meant that she missed the Fall's second Belgian CX race at Kermiscross Ardooie on Thursday, a race she won last year ahead of fellow multidisciplinary talent Shirin van Anrooij (Baloise Trek Lions/Lidl Trek).

The women's starting list included Van Alfen and Annemarie Worst (Fenix-Deceuninck), with the former European champion winning. Michael Vandholenhout and Eli Iserbeet will both be favourites in the men's race riding the Powell's Sauzen Bingor.

The Cyclocross season will continue from autumn to winter and the frequency and importance of races will increase in the next 3 months.

The Belgian Superprelige series race will begin this Sunday at Overijse-Vlaamse Druivencross.

This year's Superprelige series includes eight races between May and May, where the X2O Badkamers Trofee series starts in May and is set to work in a similar time frame.

The Vas is also the UCI Waer in Europe starting at the end of the 10th month at Maasmechelen in Belgium, before the subsequent rounds in France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain

The 22-year-old will be in the cross-calendar before the World Championships to be held in Tabor in the Czech Republic on 2 May. We hope that we can return to the next level.