Tomasz Marczynski is  the lastest Vacansoleil rider to find a new team for the 2014 season. After an injury-plagued season, the Pole who showed great potential in 2012, will step down to continental level on the new Polish team Active Jet.

For now, Tomasz Marczynski's time as a rider on the highest level has come to an end. After the demise of Vacansoleil, the strong Pole has been unable to find another top level team for the 2014 season and according to Wielerland, he has instead signed a contract with the new continental team Active Jet from his native Poland.

For several year, Marczynski rode for smaller Italian teams but repeatedly showed great promise as a climber. In 2008, he even won the queen stage of the Vuelta Asturias and in 2009, he was only beaten by Christophe Riblon on a big mountain stage in the Route du Sud.

Those results earned him a contract with the big Polish team CCC - Polsat. In 2010, he won the Tour de Seoul and finished 5th in the Tour of Hainan but it was the 2011 season, that showed his potential to the biggest teams in the world. An overall win in the Tour of Malopolska was followed by wins in both his national road race and time trial championships, and this caught the attention of Vacansoleil.

Having joined the Dutch team, he got his 2012 season off to a difficult start but he found his legs in time for the end of the season. In his second grand tour, he finished 13th in the Vuelta a Espana and kept going all the way to the end, finishing 8th in the Tour of Beijing.

Those results made great expectations for the 2013 season where he was set to ride his first Tour de France, even with a focus on the GC. However, an injury plagued throughout the entire season and he raced very little in a year whose highlight was a win in the mountains classification in the Tour de Pologne.

Despite his 2012 results, he has been unable to attract the interest of the bigger teams in a difficult market, and so he will have to earn his place on the highest level by riding for Active Jet in 2014.