Venue | Reims, France |
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Date(s) | 30-31 August 1958 |
Coordinates | 49°15′46″N 4°02′05″E / 49.2628°N 4.0347°E |
Events | 3 |
The 1958 UCI Road World Championships was the 31st edition of the UCI Road World Championships.[1]
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.