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. The mixed C-2 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

Men's

Canoe

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
C-1  Vladimír Jirásek (TCH) 421  Manfred Schubert (GDR) 453  Karl-Heinz Wozniak (GDR) 470
C-1 team  Czechoslovakia
Luděk Beneš
Václav Janovský
Vladimír Jirásek
772  East Germany
Karl-Heinz Wozniak
Gert Kleinert
Manfred Schubert
872   Switzerland
Roland Bardet
Jean-Claude Tochon
Marcel Roth
1078
C-2  East Germany
Dieter Friedrich
Horst Kleinert
395  Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel
Josef Hendrych
446  East Germany
Dieter Göthe
Lothar Schubert
448
C-2 team  East Germany
Dieter Friedrich & Horst Kleinert
Dieter Göthe & Lothar Schubert
Manfred Glöckner & Rudolf Seifert
664  Czechoslovakia
Miroslav Čihák & Vladimír Lánský
Václav Havel & Josef Hendrych
Milan Horyna & Milan Kný
811   Switzerland
Charles Dussuet & Henri Kadrnka
Enz & Hiltbrand
Jean Pessina & Robert Zürcher
912

Kayak

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
Folding K-1  Paul Farrant (GBR) 335  Eberhard Gläser (GDR) 344  Heinz Bielig (GDR) 395
Folding K-1 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
C-2  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 K-1  Hilde Urbaniak (FRG) 589  Anneliese Bauer (GDR) 597  Inge Walthemate (FRG) 627
Folding K-1 team  East Germany
Ursula Gläser
Eva Setzkorn
Elfriede Hugo
1104 - -

Medals table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  East Germany 5 5 4 14
2  Czechoslovakia 2 3 0 5
3  West Germany 1 0 2 3
4  United Kingdom 1 0 0 1
5   Switzerland 0 0 2 2
Total 9 8 8 25

References

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