{"id":660145,"date":"2026-05-10T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660145\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:17:14","slug":"sidney-swierenga-sprints-to-podium-at-gp-du-morbihan-feminin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660145\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Swierenga sprints to podium at GP du Morbihan F\u00e9minin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/sidney-swierenga-incredible-in-vuelta-a-extremadura-femenina\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Swierenga<\/a> was so close to her first big win in the elite ranks on Saturday, taking second at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpmo.bzh\/le-grand-prix-du-morbihan-f%C3%A9minin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Prix du Morbihan F\u00e9minin<\/a>. She won the sprint from the chase group, just behind solo winner Eline Jansen (VolkerWessels).<\/p>\n<p>Jansen attacked in the final metres of the C\u00f4te de Cadoudal after her teammates controlled much of the racing across the 83-km event, part of the Coupe de France series.<\/p>\n<p>Swierenga, riding for Liv AlUla Jayco, finished runner-up, while France\u2019s \u00c9milie Morier took third.<\/p>\n<p>Laval, Que.\u2019s \u00c9milie Fortin (Minimax Cycling Team) continued her strong season after a few years of illness. She just missed the top 10, coming in 11th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/feature\/emilie-fortin-on-her-first-tour-of-flanders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emilie Fortin on her first Tour of Flanders<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone gave it everything out there today,\u201d Swierenga, 18, who is racing in her first year with the elites. \u201cIt was a really fast, short, but hard race. The team was amazing all day, and in the end I was able to fight for second place, which I\u2019m really happy about. It\u2019s my first elite podium, so I\u2019m super excited. I really fought all the way to the line on a tough finish, and we\u2019re all really happy with the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Results powered by <a title=\"FirstCycling.com\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/race.php?r=9732&amp;y=2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FirstCycling.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver\u2019s Sidney Swierenga was so close to her first big win in the elite ranks on Saturday, taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,224245,89887,82],"class_list":["post-660145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-emilie-fortin","tag-sidney-swierenga","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660145","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=660145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}