Whitewater Racing World Championships 1959

1959 saw the first world championships in canoe whitewater racing. According to the decision of the ICF Congress in Prague in 1958, whitewater championships should be held every other year in the same region as the slalom world championships. The Swiss, who hosted the Slalom World Championships in Geneva in 1959, did not see themselves in a position to implement this in the short time. Therefore, the French carried out this one week after the Geneva event on 1st & 2nd August. in Treignac on the Vézère . 10 nations took part.

Results

Nations ranking

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	France	2	2	1	5
2	BR Germany	2	1	-	3
3	German Democratic Republic	1	-	2	3
4th	Switzerland	-	1	2	3
5	Yugoslavia	-	1	-	1
total		5	5	5	15th

One kayak

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRG	Toni Prijon	48: 13.8
2	YUG	Pavel Bone	48: 38.3
3	SUI	Edouard Rothpletz	48: 52.2

Women:

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRG	Rosemarie Bisinger	50: 47.9
2	FRG	Inge Waltemathe	52: 03.3
3	GDR	Eva Setzkorn	52: 36.4

Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	GDR	Manfred Schubert	52: 45.6
2	SUI	Jean Claude Tochon	52: 53.3
3	GDR	Karl-Heinz Wozniak	53: 56.5

Two-man Canadians

Men:

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Dransart - Turlier	49: 50.5
2	FRA	Garnier - Grossmann	50: 02.4
3	SUI	Dussuet - Kadruka	50: 08.6

Mixed:

space	country	athlete	time
1	FRA	Malicet - Malicet	52: 19.6
2	FRA	Gitton - Gitton	53: 43.5
3	FRA	Guette - Olry	54: 04.1

Individual evidence

1. ^ HE Vespers: 50 years of the International Canu Federation. 1973.