{"id":778225,"date":"2026-07-03T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:09:10","slug":"sidney-swierenga-5th-in-stage-3-tt-at-volta-a-portugal-feminina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/778225\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Swierenga 5th in Stage 3 TT at Volta a Portugal Feminina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The racing continued at the Volta a Portugal Feminina and the Canadian contingent continued to shine. On Friday, it was an ITT just over 10 km.<\/p>\n<p>Going into the third stage, Kiara Lylyk (Mayenne Monbana My Pie) wore the white jersey, sitting second overall in the best young rider\u2019s competition. Since Emma Siegers (AG Insurance Soudal Devo Team) was also leading, the Guelph, Ont. rider wore the leader\u2019s jersey. It\u2019s actually the second time this year that Lylyk has done so.<\/p>\n<p>The Volta a Portugal Feminina Stage 3 TT<\/p>\n<p>Marion Borras gave Cofidis its second straight stage victory at the Volta a Portugal Feminina on Friday, winning the <a href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/race.php?r=16227&amp;y=2026&amp;e=03\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10.8-km individual time trial in Coimbra<\/a>. The 28-year-old French rider stopped the clock in 13:28 on a super-hot day, finishing three seconds ahead of teammate Victoire Berteau.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium\u2019s Annelies Nijssen (Lotto Intermarch\u00e9) rounded out the podium, seven seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udfc1 FINISH<\/p>\n<p>Full gas under the Portuguese sun! \ud83e\udd75\u23f1\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Matilde Vitillo finishes 4\u20e3th and Sidney Swierenga 5\u20e3th in today\u2019s explosive ITT. Both stay well in contention for the overall classification. \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/VPFeminina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#VPFeminina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XzN3pjGsv3\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/XzN3pjGsv3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liv AlUla Jayco Women\u2019s Continental Team (@GreenEDGEcontiW) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GreenEDGEcontiW\/status\/2073037058231210040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Siegers (AG Insurance Soudal Devo Team) successfully defended the race lead and will wear the yellow jersey into Saturday\u2019s super-tough, 109-km Stage 4 from Mealhada to \u00c1gueda, which features three categorized climbs.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver\u2019s Sidney Swierenga (Liv AlUla Jayco Women\u2019s Continental Team) had a great TT, finishing fifth, just 17 seconds behind. The 19-year-old now sits fifth overall, moving up six spots. Lylyk finished 43rd and would slip in the standings; she now sits 17th overall with two stages to go. Still, a fine showing these past few days for the talented rider.<\/p>\n<p>The third Canuck, Swierenga\u2019s teammate, Annabelle Thomas from Calgary, finished 29th in the chrono.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The racing continued at the Volta a Portugal Feminina and the Canadian contingent continued to shine. On Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82,11588],"class_list":["post-778225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778225","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=778225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}