2004 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

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| name =Women's Individual Road Race

| image =2004 UCI Road World Championships, course, road race.png

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| image_size =175

| series =2004 UCI Road World Championships

| race_no =

| series_no =

| date = 2004-10-02

| stages = 1 in {{flagicon|ITA}} Verona (ITA)

| distance = 132.75

| unit = km

| time = 03h 44' 38"

| speed = 35.5245

| first = {{flagUCIRoadathlete|Judith Arndt|GER}}

| second = {{flagUCIRoadathlete|Tatiana Guderzo|ITA}}

| third = {{flagUCIRoadathlete|Anita Valen|NOR}}

| previous = 2003 Hamilton

| next = Madrid 2005

}}

The women's road race of the 2004 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 2 October in Verona, Italy. Starting at 13:30 CEST, the race was 132.75 km long, which constituted of 9 laps of a circuit around Torricelle, including the 3.4 km Torricelle climb, with an average gradient of approximately 4%, 7% at the steepest point.{{cite web| url=http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=7192| title=World Championships 2004 – Elite Women's Road Race – LIVE| publisher=Daily Peloton| date=2004-10-02| access-date=2009-02-06| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020161312/http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=7192| archive-date=2007-10-20| url-status=dead}} The course was almost identical to the one used for the 1999 UCI Road World Championships when Edita Pučinskaitė won the women's championship.{{cite web| url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/worlds04/?id=stages/worlds049| title=Pucinskaite looks for Verona double| publisher=Cyclingnews| year=2004}}

The race was won by the German rider Judith Arndt.{{cite web| url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/worlds04/?id=results/worlds049| title=A different kind of salute: Arndt wins World's with both arms raised – Audacious Italian Guderzo runner-up| author=Tim Maloney| publisher=Cyclingnews| date=2004-10-02}}