SWISS cyclist Gino Mader has died at the age of 26 as the result of injuries suffered in a crash at the Tour de Suisse on Thursday, the Bahrain-Victorious team announced today.

Mader was involved in a high-speed crash on the descent of the Albula Pass late on stage five of the race along with American Magnus Sheffield, with both riders falling into a ravine.

Mader had been found “motionless in the water,” according to a race statement, before being resuscitated by race doctors at the scene and airlifted to hospital in Chur.