Canadian talent Sidney Swierenga will step up to GreenEDGE Cycling’s WorldTour programme for the 2027 season on a two-year deal covering 2027 and 2028, after a single year with the Liv AlUla Jayco Women’s Continental Team.
The 19-year-old joined the development squad for 2026 with a two-year Continental contract, but a strong first season in the programme has accelerated that pathway. GreenEDGE confirmed the promotion in its announcement, moving one of the standout riders from the development team into the WorldTour structure on a contract through the end of 2028.
Swierenga’s 2026 season combined consistency with a major stage-race breakthrough. She finished second at the Grand Prix du Morbihan Femmes, fifth at the Alpes Grésivaudan Classic and then took both a stage win and the overall title at the Giro della Toscana before ending the year with eighth in the under-23 road race at the World Championships in Montréal.
Swierenga converts a strong development season into a WorldTour place
The result that changed the shape of her season came at the Giro della Toscana. Swierenga attacked on the decisive stage to Segromigno in Piano, took the stage victory and moved into the overall lead before defending that advantage on the final day to win the race overall.
She finished 15 seconds clear of Malou Eisen in the final classification, with Victoire Berteau third. It was Swierenga’s first major elite stage-race victory and the clearest indication that she could handle longer climbs, repeated hard efforts and the pressure of defending a leader’s jersey.
That win did not arrive in isolation. Earlier in the year she was second at GP du Morbihan Femmes and fifth at Alpes Grésivaudan, while the Volta a Catalunya Femenina also produced a third place on the mountain stage to La Molina.
At the Faun Tour Femmes she finished fourth on stage two and seventh on the final stage, adding more evidence that her best terrain sits in hilly and mountainous races rather than flat sprint finishes.
A rapid rise through the GreenEDGE development pathway
Swierenga only joined the Liv AlUla Jayco Women’s Continental Team at the start of 2026. ProCyclingUK covered her original move into the GreenEDGE development programme after a 2025 season that had already marked her out as one of Canada’s strongest young riders.
That campaign included the Canadian junior time trial title, overall victory at the Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie Femmes and second overall at the Tour of the Gila, where she also won the youth classification.
GreenEDGE signed her to the Continental squad with the explicit aim of creating a route towards the WorldTour. The promotion for 2027 means that process has taken just one season rather than the full length of her original development deal.
Swierenga has also already spent time racing alongside the WorldTour squad. She was one of the Continental riders brought into the Eneco Tour Women line-up this October, giving her another early look at the level she will race at full-time next season.
Eighth at the U23 Worlds confirms late-season form
Her final major international result of the season came at the Road World Championships in Montréal. Swierenga finished eighth in the under-23 women’s road race, 1:10 behind winner Viktória Chladoňová.
The race was won by riders already established at WorldTour level, making Swierenga’s place in the top 10 particularly useful context for her promotion. ProCyclingUK’s U23 World Championships race report covered that performance.
It also reinforced the same pattern seen throughout her season. Swierenga is at her best when the race becomes selective through climbing rather than pure explosiveness, with enough endurance to stay involved deep into stage races and hard one-day events.
GreenEDGE add another homegrown WorldTour promotion
The move continues the GreenEDGE model of using its Continental team as a direct route into the WorldTour squad. Mackenzie Coupland, Noä Jansen and Matilde Vitillo all made the same progression for 2026, and Swierenga now follows after her first year in the programme.
At 19, she will still have significant development ahead of her when she moves up. The immediate challenge will be adapting to the deeper fields and longer races of the WorldTour while continuing to build the climbing strength and stage-racing consistency that produced her best 2026 results.
Swierenga has already shown that she can win a stage race, place highly in selective one-day events and handle championship racing. Her first WorldTour season will show how quickly those strengths translate against deeper fields and over a more demanding calendar.
