{"id":176511,"date":"2025-09-29T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176511\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:34:09","slug":"sidney-swierenga-sprints-to-canadas-top-finish-at-road-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/176511\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Swierenga sprints to Canada\u2019s top finish at road worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So close! Vancouver\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/junior-sidney-swierenga-delivers-canadas-only-zurich-worlds-time-trial-top-10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Swierenga<\/a> came within striking distance of the podium at the UCI road world championships on Saturday. The 18-year-old finished fourth in the junior women\u2019s race in Kigali, Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-km contest featured five laps of a circuit packed with steep climbs. That included the C\u00f4te de Kigali Golf (800 metres at 8.1 per cent) and the C\u00f4te de Kimihurura (1.3 km at 6.3 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>After several early attacks fizzled, the decisive move came on the final ascent of Kimihurura. A select group pulled clear that included Swierenga.<\/p>\n<p>The group held their advantage into the final km, where Ostiz proved strongest in the sprint to claim gold.<\/p>\n<p>Chantal Pegolo secured silver, Anja Grossmanntook bronze, and Swierenga crossed the line just off the podium in fourth. Rafaelle Carrier also rode well, finishing 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Other Canadians: Elodie Malois in 38th, Abigael Fortier in 50th, and Raphaelle Houde finished in 58th.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Swierenga took another great result at the 2025 UCI road worlds, finishing 10th in the time trial.<\/p>\n<p>Racing continues on Saturday with the elite women\u2019s road race. On Sunday, the final event is the elite men\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Results powered by <a title=\"FirstCycling.com\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/race.php?r=9070&amp;y=2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FirstCycling.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So close! Vancouver\u2019s Sidney Swierenga came within striking distance of the podium at the UCI road world championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[52521,49,48,635,89887,82,11588],"class_list":["post-176511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2025-uci-road-worlds","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sidney-swierenga","tag-sports","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}