The 1974 UCI Road World Championships took place on 25 August 1974 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and the 1976 Summer Olympics follows a similar course to this World Championship. It was the 47th edition of the tournament and the first to be hosted outside Europe.

Race:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze :	Time
Men
Men's road race details	Eddy Merckx  Belgium	6 h 52 min 22s	Raymond Poulidor  France	+ 2s	Mariano Martínez  France	+ 37s
Amateurs' road race	Janusz Kowalski  Poland	-	Ryszard Szurkowski  Poland	-	Michel Kuhn  Switzerland	-
Team time trial	Sweden Lennart Fagerlund Bernt Johansson Tord Filipsson Sven-Åke Nilsson	-	Soviet Union Gennady Komnatov Rinat Sharafullin Vladimir Kaminski Valery Chaplygin	-	East Germany Hans-Joachim Hartnick Karl Dietrich Diers Horst Tischoff Gerhard Lauke	-
Women
Women's road race	Geneviève Gambillon  France	-	Baiba Caune  Soviet Union	-	Keetie van Oosten-Hage  Netherlands	-

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	0	2
3	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
5	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	0	2
6	East Germany (DDR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12

• Men's results
• Women's results
• (in Italian) Results at sportpro.it