Canoe Slalom World Championships 1959

The 1959 Canoe Slalom World Championships took place in 1959 in Geneva , Switzerland .

Results

One kayak

Men:

space	country	athlete
1	GBR	Paul Farrant
2	GDR	Eberhard glasses
3	GDR	Heinz Bielig

Women:

space	country	athlete
1	GER	Hilde Urbaniak
2	GDR	Anneliese Bauer
3	GER	Inge Walthemate

One kayak crew

Men:

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Günter Möbius Eberhard glasses Heinz Bielig
2	TCH	Vladimir Cibak Jan Para Zdenek Kostal
3	GER	Manfred Vogt Samhuber Vogler

Women:

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Ursula glasses Elfriede Hugo-Schneider Eva Setzkorn

Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete
1	TCH	Vladimir Jirasek
2	GDR	Manfred Schubert
3	GDR	Karl-Heinz Wozniak

One canoe team

Men:

space	country	athlete
1	TCH	Ludek Benes Vaclav Janovsky Vladimir Jirasek
2	GDR	Karl-Heinz Wozniak Gert Kleinert Manfred Schubert
3	SUI	Roland Bardet Jean-Claude Tochon Marcel Roth

Mixed:

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Rita Behrend Manfred Merkel
2	GDR	Margitta Tröger Günther Merkel
3	GDR	Ellen Krügel Siegfried Seidelmann

Two-man Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Dieter Friedrich / Horst Kleinert
2	TCH	Vaclav Havel / Josef Hendrych
3	GDR	Dieter Goethe / Lothar Schubert

Two-man Canoe team

Men:

space	country	athlete
1	GDR	Dieter Friedrich / Horst Kleinert Dieter Goethe / Lothar Schubert Rudolf Seifert / Manfred Glöckner
2	TCH	Vaclav Havel / Josef Hendrych Zihak / Lansky Horyna / Kny
3	SUI	Charles Dussuet / Kadmka Elz / Hiltbrand Pessina / Zürcher

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	German Democratic Republic	5	5	4th	14th
2	Czechoslovakia	2	3	-	5
3	Germany	1	-	2	3
4th	United Kingdom	1	-	-	1
5	Switzerland	-	-	2	2
total		9	8th	8th	25th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Canoe Slalom World Championships (men) , accessed on April 6, 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b} Canoe Slalom World Championships (women) , accessed on April 6, 2014