1958 UCI Road World Championships
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Events summary
| Men's Events | ||||||
| Professional Road Race | Ercole Baldini Ercole Baldini Ercole Baldini is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his win in the 1958 Giro d'Italia.-Biography:Baldini was born at Villanova di Forlì .... |
7h 29' 32" | Louison Bobet Louison Bobet Louis 'Louison' Bobet was a French professional road racing cyclist. He was the first great French rider of the post-war period and the first rider to win the Tour de France in three successive years, from 1953 to 1955... |
+ 2' 09" | André Darrigade André Darrigade André Darrigade was a French professional road bicycle racer between 1951 and 1966. Darrigade, a road sprinter won the 1959 World Championship and 22 stages of the Tour de France. Five of those were on the first day. The record has never been equalled.-Origins:André Darrigade was born at Narosse,... |
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| Amateur Road Race | Gustav-Adolf Schur Gustav-Adolf Schur Gustav-Adolf "Täve" Schur is a former German cyclist and one of the most popular sportspeople in East Germany. He was the first German to win the amateur competition of the World Cycling Championships and the Peace Race... |
- | Valere Paulissen |
- | Henri Dewolf |
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| Women's Events | ||||||
| Road Race | Elsie Jacobs |
1h 50' 05" | Tamara Novikova Tamara Novikova Tamara Novikova is a former female cyclist from the Soviet Union.Novikova broke the women's World Record for 1 hour on July 7, 1955 when she covered 38.473 km, breaking the mark of Italian Alfonsina Strada that had stood for 26 years.Novikova took the silver medal in the first UCI Road World... |
+ 2' 51" | Mariya Lukshina |
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