Bend riders set to race at worlds
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, January 13, 2016
- Joe Kline / The Bulletin file photoRyan Trebon will be one of two Bend residents competing for the United States at the world cyclocross championships.
Two cyclists from Bend were named this week to the U.S. team that will compete at the cyclocross world championships on Jan. 30-31 in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium.
Bend’s Ryan Trebon was selected for the seven-rider elite men’s team. Trebon — a 15-year full-time pro and two-time national champion — finished seventh in the U.S. championships Sunday in Asheville, North Carolina.
Trebon, 34, finished 17th at the 2012 world championships and boasts several top-10 placings in World Cup races. He was injured last season and did not compete at worlds. He finished 31st at the 2014 worlds in the Netherlands.
Bend’s Cameron Beard, 18, was named to the U.S. junior men’s team for the world championships in Belgium. The selection marks Beard’s second consecutive appointment to the world team. He finished 39th at last year’s worlds in the Czech Republic. His teammate on the U.S. junior team, Gage Hecht, of Parker, Colorado, finished fourth. Beard and Hecht are the only two U.S. junior men’s riders to return to the worlds after making the team last year.
Beard finished sixth in the men’s junior race at the U.S. championships in North Carolina on Sunday, while Hecht won the race.
— Bulletin staff report