| Venue: | Reims, France  |
| Date: | 30-31 August 1958 |
| Events: | 3 |
| Previous: | Waregem 1957 |
| Next: | Zandvoort 1959 |
| Pushpin Map: | France |
| Pushpin Label: | Reims |
| Coordinates: | 49.2628°N 4.0347°W |
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.
| Men's events | |||||||
| Professional road race | Ercole Baldini | 7h 29' 32" | Louison Bobet | + 2' 09" | André Darrigade | + 3' 47" | |
| Amateur road race | Gustav-Adolf Schur | - | Valere Paulissen | - | Henri Dewolf | - | |
| Women's events | |||||||
| Road race | Elsy Jacobs | 1h 50' 05" | Tamara Novikova | + 2' 51" | Mariya Lukshina | s.t. | |