Meg Roussos / The BulletinLance Haidet and Cameron Beard, both of Bend, pictured before heading to USA Cycling's EuroCrossCamp in Belgium last December. The junior cyclists have both been named to the U.S. national team ahead of the Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.

TABOR, Czech Republic — Bend’s Cameron Beard placed 39th among 71 finishers in the junior men’s race at the Cyclocross World Championships on Saturday.

Beard, a 16-year-old sophomore at Summit High School, finished the 9.76-mile race 4 minutes, 14 seconds behind Denmark’s Simon Andreassen, the winner with a time of 42:24.

The top American finisher was Colorado’s Gage Hecht, who finished three seconds off the podium in fourth place.

Bend’s Lance Haidet did not finish the five-lap race.

— Bulletin staff report