Marta Lach will join Human Powered Health from Team SD Worx-Protime for the 2027 season, with the Polish all-rounder signing a two-year contract through to the end of 2028.
Human Powered Health confirmed the signing on Tuesday, making the 29-year-old one of the first major additions to the team’s 2027 roster. Lach will arrive with 16 professional victories and a growing reputation as one of the peloton’s strongest riders when difficult racing ends with a reduced sprint.
The move had already been linked in the transfer market, with Lach among the riders mentioned in ProCyclingUK’s recent report on Yara Kastelijn’s expected move to Human Powered Health. Lach’s transfer is now official, beginning what Human Powered Health describes as the start of its 2027 signing season.
“It’s an international team, and the happiness that I see between the girls, and the mentality to push forward, and to be happy on the bike drew me to the project,” Lach said. “This environment seems to be a good one for me. I believe that with the team, we can achieve a lot. Also to grow as a person and as a rider.”
Lach will leave SD Worx-Protime a year earlier than originally planned
Lach joined SD Worx-Protime at the beginning of 2025 after several successful seasons with Ceratizit-WNT. Her original move was announced as a three-year agreement running through 2027, meaning the new Human Powered Health deal will take her away from the Dutch team a year earlier than initially scheduled.
When Lach signed for SD Worx-Protime in 2024, she described joining the dominant Dutch team as a “dream come true”. Her time there has helped refine the characteristics that made her such an attractive transfer target: resilience in difficult one-day races, strong positioning and enough finishing speed to convert selective racing into victories.
Lach was positive about the role SD Worx-Protime has played in her development despite deciding to move on.
“I’m grateful for the past, for these people that I’ve had the chance to meet along the way, and I look back on this time with gratitude,” she said. “Now, I’m excited to take the new step of my career.”
Human Powered Health completed the deal within 24 hours
Human Powered Health general manager Ro de Jonckere said the team moved immediately once it learned Lach was interested in joining.
“When Marta’s agent called me to tell me about her interest in joining Human Powered Health, we did not hesitate for a second,” De Jonckere said. “The deal was done within 24 hours, which says a lot about how strongly we believe in Marta and what she can bring to this team.”
De Jonckere described Lach as an “incredibly strong and versatile rider” and identified her as one of the key additions for the next two seasons as Human Powered Health continues trying to move closer to the strongest teams in the Women’s WorldTour.
That ambition has been central to the team’s recent development. ProCyclingUK’s Human Powered Health 2026 Women’s WorldTour team guide assessed a squad that had established itself firmly in the WorldTour’s middle tier but still needed greater depth and more riders capable of influencing the biggest races.
Lach fits that requirement particularly well because she does not need one narrow type of parcours to become relevant.
Lach’s Classics strength is central to the move
Lach describes the chaotic one-day races of northern Europe as some of her favourite events, particularly when hard racing eliminates the pure sprinters but leaves enough riders together for a fast finish.
“I’m really good in the classic races, especially the crazy ones, you know, like Antwerp or Roubaix,” she said. “But I also really like sprints after a hard race.”
That combination has become increasingly evident in her results. Lach took her first victory for SD Worx-Protime at the 2025 Nokere Koerse, timing her acceleration perfectly on the uphill finish after a race shaped by cobbles, exposed roads and repeated positioning battles.
She has remained a threat in similar races throughout 2026. At Dwars door de Westhoek in June, Lach was part of the decisive breakaway and eventually finished third behind Federica Venturelli, another example of her ability to remain competitive after an aggressive and selective race.
“I have this mentality to keep going, to never give up,” Lach said. “I’m very ambitious, always fighting until the end.”
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Sixteen victories include Chongming Island and Festival Elsy Jacobs
Lach will bring 16 professional victories to Human Powered Health, with her palmarès showing the range that attracted the American team.
One of her biggest achievements came at the 2024 Tour of Chongming Island, where she won two stages before securing the overall classification. Lach entered the final day behind teammate Mylène de Zoete but used another sprint victory and its accompanying bonus seconds to take the GC. ProCyclingUK covered her stage and overall victory at the 2024 Tour of Chongming Island.
She has also developed an extraordinary record at the Festival Elsy Jacobs à Garnich. Lach won there in 2024 and has now taken the race in three consecutive seasons through 2026, with this year’s victory again coming from a reduced group. Her repeated success on the Luxembourg parcours reinforces how well she performs when rolling terrain progressively reduces the number of riders capable of contesting the finish.
That versatility means Human Powered Health can use Lach as a leader in one-day races without needing to construct the entire programme around either pure sprinting or climbing.
Lach believes Human Powered Health can make more of her versatility
For Lach, the attraction of the move is not simply the opportunity to collect more leadership roles. She believes the team’s environment can help her make greater use of the qualities she already possesses.
“I would really love to use this potential, and I hope in Human Powered Health we can really use it as an advantage,” she said. “I hope to grow also in this even more, and to strengthen the team with these values that I have.”
That could make her particularly valuable across the Belgian and northern European Classics, where Human Powered Health already have riders capable of influencing selective races but are looking for greater consistency at the front of WorldTour events.
Lach has spent much of her career demonstrating that she can survive the part of a race designed to eliminate sprinters and still possess the speed to win afterwards. Human Powered Health now have two seasons to turn that quality into a bigger collection of results.
The move begins on 1 January 2027, with Lach contracted through the end of 2028.
