Canadian multi-discipline rider Maggie Coles-Lyster signed a two-year contract to compete with Human Powered Well being, altering from the pink kits of Roland to the orange and purple colors of the US-based ladies’s WorldTour squad for 2025-2026. Human Powered Well being 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 Video games this summer time, however nonetheless packed in 30 days of the highway, which included two podiums at Thüringen Women 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 group 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 Ladies’s WorldTour group is particular. Since Human Powered Well being stepped as much as WorldTour after which targeted on ladies’s biking, I’ve heard nothing however good issues. The employees appears unbelievable, which builds a strong basis and that will increase my pleasure much more,” Coles-Lyster stated in a press launch.
“To come back to a program that may 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 group that may help that.”
She started racing cyclocross when she was eight years previous, 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 Professional Biking group, the place she had high 10s on the Joe Martin Stage Race and Tucson Bicycle Traditional, in addition to podiums in criterium occasions corresponding to Saint Francis Tulsa Powerful, Athens Twilight Criterium, Sunny King Criterium and Spartanburg Criterium.
In 2022 she had received a stage at Joe Martin, the Harlem Skyscraper Biking Traditional and earned podiums at Salt Lake Criterium and Boise Twilight, and that momentum led her to signal with a B&B Motels group to race in Europe. However that group didn’t materialise and he or she then signed with Zaaf Biking, and that Spanish group fell aside on brief discover within the early spring. She completed the season at Israel Premier Tech Roland on the Ladies’s WorldTour, which grew to become Roland this 12 months.
“You see loads of feminine athletes go down some slippery slopes. Possibly they’re actually good for a season however then they get fully burnt out and that’s unhappy to see. For our long-term well being and efficiency, stability with the Pillars is essential,” she stated about Human Powered Well being’s deal with “pillars of efficiency” – motion, gasoline, mindset and get well.
In 2017, Maggie Coles-Lyster grew to become Canada’s first junior world champion in monitor biking when she received the ladies’s factors race a day after taking silver within the Omnium. She was a double silver medallist on the 2019 Pan American Video games within the ladies’s group pursuit and girls’s omnium. By 2022 she had earned a bronze medal within the Scratch race on the Commonwealth Video games and was fourth within the Omnium on the World Championships.
On the Paris Olympic Video 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 Factors race moved her to ninth general within the Omnium. She additionally competed in ladies’s Madison and Workforce Pursuit but in addition fell out of competition for any medals.
“For a primary Olympics it was fairly the week,” Coles-Lyster instructed CBC Sports activities 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 Well being Sciences from Queen’s College in Ontario, Canada.
