Canadian multi-discipline rider Maggie Coles-Lyster signed a two-year contract to compete with Human Powered Health, altering from the crimson kits of Roland to the orange and purple colors of the US-based ladies’s WorldTour squad for 2025-2026. Human Powered Health made the announcement Wednesday, their first new contract for subsequent season.
The all-rounder from British Columbia competed on the monitor on the Paris Olympic Games this summer season, however nonetheless packed in 30 days of the highway, which included two podiums at Thüringen Ladies Tour, a stage high 10 on the Tour de France Femmes, fifth at Ronde de Mouscron, fifth on a stage at UAE Tour and tenth at Gent-Wevelgem.
The crew will look to the 25-year-old so as to add a spark for sprints, particularly in one-day Classics.
“To be on an American Women’s WorldTour crew is particular. Since Human Powered Health stepped as much as WorldTour after which centered on ladies’s biking, I’ve heard nothing however good issues. The workers appears unbelievable, which builds a strong basis and that will increase my pleasure much more,” Coles-Lyster mentioned in a press launch.
“To come to a program that can assist me step it as much as that subsequent diploma of growth is essential. I’ve figured it out on a big scale and now it is time to fine-tune particulars with a crew that can assist that.”
She started racing cyclocross when she was eight years outdated, however modified her focus later to the strong surfaces of monitor and highway with Canadian nationwide groups. On the highway she spent three years with the DNA Pro Cycling crew, the place she had high 10s on the Joe Martin Stage Race and Tucson Bicycle Classic, in addition to podiums in criterium occasions similar to Saint Francis Tulsa Tough, Athens Twilight Criterium, Sunny King Criterium and Spartanburg Criterium.
In 2022 she had gained a stage at Joe Martin, the Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic and earned podiums at Salt Lake Criterium and Boise Twilight, and that momentum led her to signal with a B&B Hotels crew to race in Europe. But that crew didn’t materialise and he or she then signed with Zaaf Cycling, and that Spanish crew fell aside on brief discover within the early spring. She completed the season at Israel Premier Tech Roland on the Women’s WorldTour, which turned Roland this 12 months.
“You see a variety of feminine athletes go down some slippery slopes. Maybe they’re actually good for a season however then they get utterly burnt out and that’s unhappy to see. For our long-term well being and efficiency, steadiness with the Pillars is essential,” she mentioned about Human Powered Health’s deal with “pillars of efficiency” – motion, gasoline, mindset and get well.
In 2017, Maggie Coles-Lyster turned Canada’s first junior world champion in monitor biking when she gained the ladies’s factors race a day after taking silver within the Omnium. She was a double silver medallist on the 2019 Pan American Games within the ladies’s crew pursuit and ladies’s omnium. By 2022 she had earned a bronze medal within the Scratch race on the Commonwealth Games and was fourth within the Omnium on the World Championships.
At the Paris Olympic Games, Coles-Lyster put collectively a second-place end within the Scratch race with a pair of thirds within the Tempo and Elimination races, however a low rating within the Points race moved her to ninth total within the Omnium. She additionally competed in ladies’s Madison and Team Pursuit but additionally fell out of rivalry for any medals.
“For a primary Olympics it was fairly the week,” Coles-Lyster advised CBC Sports after the occasions on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome. “There have been some nice moments and a good quantity of disappointment, however that is bike racing. I do know what I’ve to do and I really feel that is going to be the primary of many Olympics for me.”
Coles-Lyster is ending her bachelor’s diploma in Health Sciences from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.