1982 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race
# 1982 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

The 1982 UCI Road World Championships - Women's Road Race took place on the 4th of september 1982 around Goodwood, Sussex in the United Kingdom. It was 61 km in length.

Mandy Jones broke clear of the field to win by 10 seconds. She was the first British woman to win a world championship for 15 years. She said:

    "I won by accident. It was just plain daft. We were going downhill and I just rode past them. Then I looked back, saw I had a gap and kept going. I was praying my legs wouldn't collapse. But with around half a lap to go, I started thinking 'Hey, I could win this!"

## Final classification

| Rank | Rider | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Mandy Jones | United Kingdom | 1h31'00" |
| | Maria Canins | Italy | at 0'10" |
| | Gerda Sierens | Belgium | |
| 4 | Sandra Schumacher | West Germany | at 0'26" |
| 5 | Connie Carpenter-Phinney | United States | at 0'42" |
| 6 | Rebecca Twigg | United States | |
| 7 | Ute Enzenauer | West Germany | |
| 8 | Karen Ann Strong-Hearth | Canada | |
| 9 | Emanuela Menuzzo | Italy | |
| 10 | Kathrine Lundström | Sweden | |
| 11 | Tuulikki Jahre | Sweden | |
| 12 | Helle Sørensen | Denmark | |
| 13 | Marianne Berglund | Sweden | |
| 14 | Tamara Poliakova | Ukraine | |
| 15 | Leontine van der Lienden | Netherlands | |
| 16 | Nina Søbye | Norway | |
| 17 | Rosemarie Kurz | Switzerland | |
| 18 | Anna Callebaut | Belgium | |
| 19 | Ines Varenkamp | West Germany | |
| 20 | Thea Van Rijnsoever | Netherlands | at 0'57" |
| 21 | Beate Habetz | West Germany | |
| 22 | Nadezhda Kibardina | Soviet Union | |
| 23 | Anna-Karin Johansson | Sweden | |
| 24 | Josiane Vanhuysse | Belgium | at 1'02" |
| 25 | Irina Kolesnikova | Soviet Union | |
| 26 | Annelies Josefsson | Sweden | |
| 27 | Marie-Jeanne Thijs | Belgium | |
| 28 | Connie Meyer | Netherlands | |
| 29 | Alla Lukutina | Soviet Union | |
| 30 | Francesca Galli | Italy | |
| 31 | Galina Tsareva | Soviet Union | |
| 32 | Petra Weigenand | West Germany | |
| 33 | Luisa Seghezzi | Italy | |
| 34 | Barbara Ganz | Switzerland | |
| 35 | Isabelle Gautheron | France | |
| 36 | Birgit Förstl | West Germany | |
| 37 | Anne Guillemin | France | |
| 38 | Wakako Abe | Japan | |
| 39 | Cynthia Olavarri | United States | |
| 40 | Maria Johnsson | Sweden | |
| 41 | Jenny De Smet | Belgium | |
| 42 | Béatrice Labarthe | France | at 1'14" |
| 43 | Hennie Top | Netherlands | |
| 44 | Els Gottschal | Netherlands | |
| 45 | Li Yanmei | China | |
| 46 | Mieke Havik | Netherlands | |
| 47 | Rebecca Daughton | United States | |
| 48 | Adalberta Marcuccetti | Italy | |
| 49 | Nina Johnsen | Norway | |
| 50 | Valentina Tverdokhlebe | Soviet Union | |
| 51 | Geneviève Brunet | Canada | at 3'11" |
| 52 | Hanni Weiss | Switzerland | at 3'32" |
| 53 | Jolanda Kalt | Switzerland | |
| 54 | Geneviève Gauthier | Canada | |
| 55 | Margaret Swinnerton | United Kingdom | |
| 56 | Anne-Catherine Andersen | Norway | |
| 57 | Rosanna Piantoni | Italy | |
| 58 | Julie Earnshaw | United Kingdom | |
| 59 | Isabelle Nicoloso-Verger | France | |
| 60 | C Baril | Canada | |
| 61 | Pauline Strong | United Kingdom | |
| 62 | Verna Buhler | Canada | at 5'15" |
| 63 | Claudine Vierstraete | Belgium | at 5'32" |
| 64 | Gabi Habetz | West Germany | at 10'13" |
| 65 | Sun Jinngin | China | at 10'33" |
| 66 | Unni Larsen | Norway | at 11'38" |
| 67 | Gu Li | China | at 12'20" |
| 68 | Zlatuše Hrnčířová | Czechoslovakia | at 12'51" |
| 69 | Stefania Carmine | Switzerland | |
