The 1973 UCI Road World Championships took place on 2 September 1973 in Montjuich, Barcelona, Spain, with four events contested. Italian Felice Gimondi and Belgian Nicole Vandenbroeck took the individual open championships, while Poland's Ryszard Szurkowski won the men's amateur road race and helped win the men's team time trial.

Results

Race:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze :	Time
Men
Men's road race details	Felice Gimondi  Italy	6 h 31 min 26s	Freddy Maertens  Belgium	m.t.	Luis Ocaña  Spain	m.t.
Amateurs' road race	Ryszard Szurkowski  Poland	-	Stanisław Szozda  Poland	-	Bernard Bourreau  France	-
Team time trial	Poland Lucjan Lis Ryszard Szurkowski Stanisław Szozda Tadeusz Mytnik	–	Soviet Union Gennady Komnatov Youri Mikhailov Boris Shoukov Sergey Sinizin	–	Sweden Tord Filipsson Lennart Fagerlund Leif Hansson Sven-Åke Nilsson	-
Women
Women's road race	Nicole Vandenbroeck  Belgium	-	Keetie van Oosten-Hage  Netherlands	-	Valentina Rebrovskaja  Soviet Union	-

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	2	1	0	3
2	Belgium	1	1	0	2
3	Italy	1	0	0	1
4	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
5	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
6	France	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12