Coles-Lyster refocuses sprint power from road to track at Glasgow World Cup

Maggie Coles-Lyster leads DNA Pro Cycling team in criterium racing
Maggie Coles-Lyster leads DNA Pro Cycling team in criterium racing (Image credit: Shane Orr/DNA Pro Cycling Team)

Multi-discipline sprinter Maggie Coles-Lyster started 2022 where she left off from her inaugural season on a women’s Continental road team, DNA Pro Cycling Team, by scooping podium spots and victories. In the closing days of the team’s camp in March, the 23-year-old Canadian, dubbed ‘Magnum’, popped another extra large bottle of sparkling wine with a win on stage 3 of the Tucson Bicycle Classic, and then she took the points lead in the American Criterium Cup with a second-place finish at Sunny King Criterium last week.

A year ago she embarked on her first full season in road cycling and finished second in the overall individual standings for the USA Cycling Pro Road Tour and USA Crits series and took top prizes at the Armed Forces Cycling Classic and Winston-Salem Cycling Classic. 

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Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).