1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

The 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the second time. It was the 6th edition. The mixed C2 team event was not held at these championships after taking place in the previous one. The Swiss city hosted the championships previously in 1949.

Medal summary

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Canoe

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
C1  Vladimír Jirásek (TCH)421  Manfred Schubert (GDR)453  Karl-Heinz Wozniak (GDR)470
C1 team  Czechoslovakia
Luděk Beneš
Václav Janovský
Vladimír Jirásek
772  East Germany
Manfred Schubert
Karl-Heinz Wozniak
Gert Kleinert
872   Switzerland
Jean-Claude Tochon
Marcel Roth
Roland Bardet
1078
C2  East Germany
Dieter Friedrich
Horst Kleinert
395  Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel
Josef Hendrych
446  East Germany
Dieter Göthe
Lothar Schubert
448
C2 team  East Germany
Dieter Friedrich & Horst Kleinert
Dieter Göthe & Lothar Schubert
Rudolf Seifert & Manfred Glöckner
664  Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel & Josef Hendrych
Milan Kný & Milan Horyna
Vladimír Lánský & Miroslav Čihák
811   Switzerland
Charles Dussuet & Henri Kadrnka
Jean Pessina & Robert Zürcher
Enz & Hiltbrand
912

Kayak

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
Folding K1  Paul Farrant (GBR)335  Eberhard Gläser (GDR)344  Heinz Bielig (GDR)395.3
Folding K1 team  East Germany
Eberhard Gläser
Heinz Bielig
Günther Möbius
529  Czechoslovakia
Jan Pára
Vladimír Cibák
Zdeněk Košťál
614  West Germany
Manfred Vogt
Georg Samhuber
Werner Vogler
653

Canoe

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
C2  East Germany
Rita Behrend
Manfred Merkel
610  East Germany
Margitta Troger
Günther Merkel
810  East Germany
Ellen Krügel
Siegfried Seidemann
849

Kayak

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
Folding K1  Hilde Urbaniak (FRG)589  Anneliese Bauer (GDR)597  Inge Walthemate (FRG)627
Folding K1 team  East Germany
Ursula Gläser
Eva Setzkorn
Elfriede Hugo
1104 - -

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 East Germany (GDR)55414
2 Czechoslovakia (TCH)2305
3 West Germany (FRG)1023
4 Great Britain (GBR)1001
5  Switzerland (SUI)0022
Totals (5 nations)98825

References

  1. "Official results" (PDF). Retrieved 8 October 2017.
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