1958 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo

Road bicycle race 1958 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo 11 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo 19 March – 19 October Europe 12 Fred De Bruyne BEL Carpano 1958 1957 1959 (Super Prestige Pernod) The 1958 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo was the eleventh and final edition of the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo. It included eleven races: all the races form the 1957 edition were retained and the Vuelta a España was included for the first time. Fred De Bruyne won the third of his three individual championships while Belgium retained the nations championship. The Challenge Desgrange-Colombo folded after the 1958 season and the Super Prestige Pernod replaced it as the season-long competition for road bicycle racing. Races Date Race Country Winner Team Report 19 March Milan–San Remo Rik Van Looy BEL Faema-Guerra Report 30 March Tour of Flanders Germain Derijcke BEL Carpano 1958 Report 13 April Paris–Roubaix Leon Vandaele BEL Report 20 April Paris–Brussels / Rik Van Looy BEL Faema-Guerra Report 26 April La Flèche Wallonne Rik Van Steenbergen BEL Report 27 April Liège–Bastogne–Liège Fred De Bruyne BEL Carpano 1958 Report 30 April – 15 May Vuelta a España Spain 1945 Jean Stablinski FRA Report 18 May – 8 June Giro d'Italia Ercole Baldini ITA Report 11 June – 18 June Tour de Suisse Pasquale Fornara ITA Report 26 June – 19 July Tour de France Charly Gaul LUX Netherlands/Luxembourg Report 5 October Paris–Tours Gilbert Desmet BEL Report 19 October Giro di Lombardia Nino Defilippis ITA Carpano 1958 Report Final standings Riders Cyclist Team Points1Fred De Bruyne BEL Carpano 1958 892Rik Van Looy BEL 773Charly Gaul LUX 764Miguel Poblet ESP 1945 715 Ercole Baldini ITA 576 Louison Bobet FRA 547 Pasquale Fornara ITA 518 Raphaël Géminiani FRA 469 Gastone Nencini ITA 4410 Nino Defilippis ITA 42 Nations NationPoints165523523282 References 103017 Challenge Desgrange-Colombo Category:Challenge Desgrange-Colombo Category:1958 in European sport