Canadian multi-discipline rider Maggie Coles-Lyster signed a two-year contract to compete with Human Powered Well being, altering from the crimson kits of Roland to the orange and purple colors of the US-based girls’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 observe on the Paris Olympic Video games this summer season, however nonetheless packed in 30 days of the highway, which included two podiums at Thüringen Women Tour, a stage prime 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 Girls’s WorldTour group is particular. Since Human Powered Well being stepped as much as WorldTour after which centered on girls’s biking, I’ve heard nothing however good issues. The employees appears unimaginable, 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 can assist me step it as much as that subsequent diploma of improvement is vital. I’ve figured it out on a big scale and now it is time to fine-tune particulars with a group that can help that.”
She started racing cyclocross when she was eight years outdated, however modified her focus later to the strong surfaces of observe and highway with Canadian nationwide groups. On the highway she spent three years with the DNA Professional Biking group, the place she had prime 10s on the Joe Martin Stage Race and Tucson Bicycle Traditional, in addition to podiums in criterium occasions equivalent to Saint Francis Tulsa Robust, Athens Twilight Criterium, Sunny King Criterium and Spartanburg Criterium.
In 2022 she had gained 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 Lodges group to race in Europe. However that group did not materialise and he or she then signed with Zaaf Biking, and that Spanish group fell aside on quick discover within the early spring. She completed the season at Israel Premier Tech Roland on the Girls’s WorldTour, which turned Roland this 12 months.
“You see loads of feminine athletes go down some slippery slopes. Perhaps 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, stability with the Pillars is essential,” she stated about Human Powered Well being’s deal with “pillars of efficiency” – motion, gasoline, mindset and recuperate.
In 2017, Maggie Coles-Lyster turned Canada’s first junior world champion in observe 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 Video games within the girls’s group pursuit and ladies’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 girls’s Madison and Staff Pursuit but additionally fell out of competition for any medals.
“For a primary Olympics it was fairly the week,” Coles-Lyster informed 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.
