[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.

The world title among the amateurs, who also rode on Saturday, went to the East German Gustav-Adolf Schur.

[4] The men's professional road race had a course of 276 km (14 rounds).

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