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1958 UCI Road World Championships

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Elsy Jacobs 1958
Elsy Jacobs 1958

The 1958 UCI Road World Championships was the 31st edition of the UCI Road World Championships. It took place from 30-31 August 1958 in Reims, France. The course partly ran over the Reims-Gueux circuit. For the first time, a women's world championship was on the program. 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. The men's professional road race had a course of 276 km (14 rounds). It was won by Italian Ercole Baldini. In the same period, the 1958 UCI Track Cycling World Championships was organized in the Parc des Princes, Paris, France.

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