1958 UCI Road World Championships

The 1958 UCI Road World Championships was the 31st edition of the UCI Road World Championships.^[1]

1958 UCI Road World Championships

Official program
Reims
Venue	Reims, France
Date(s)	(1958-08-30 - 1958-08-31)30-31 August 1958
Coordinates	49°15′46″N 4°02′05″E
Events	3
← Waregem 1957 Zandvoort 1959 →

It took place from 30-31 August 1958 in Reims, France. The course partly ran over the Reims-Gueux circuit.^[2]

For the first time, a women's world championship was on the program.^[3] The race, with a course of 59 km (3 rounds), was won by Elsy Jacobs from Luxembourg with almost a three-minute lead. There were 29 participants.

The world title among the amateurs, who also rode on Saturday, went to the East German Gustav-Adolf Schur. He was the first German to become world amateur champion.^[4]

The men's professional road race had a course of 276 km (14 rounds).^[5] It was won by Italian Ercole Baldini.^[6]

In the same period, the 1958 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was organized in the Parc des Princes, Paris, France.

Elsy Jacobs after winning the woman's amateur road race

Events summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's events
Professional road race details	Ercole Baldini  Italy	7h 29' 32"	Louison Bobet  France	+ 2' 09"	André Darrigade  France	+ 3' 47"
Amateur road race	Gustav-Adolf Schur  East Germany	-	Valere Paulissen  Belgium	-	Henri Dewolf  Belgium	-
Women's events
Road race	Elsy Jacobs  Luxembourg	1h 50' 05"	Tamara Novikova  Soviet Union	+ 2' 51"	Mariya Lukshina  Soviet Union	s.t.