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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Men's

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

Mixed

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

Women's

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany  (GDR)	5	5	4	14
2	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	2	3	0	5
3	West Germany  (FRG)	1	0	2	3
4	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	0	0	1
5	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	0	2	2
Totals (5 entries)		9	8	8	25

References

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

• Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: 11 March 2016 .

External links

• International Canoe Federation