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 |
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1 |
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2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
2 |
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2 | 1 | - | 3 |
3 |
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1 | - | 2 | 3 |
4th |
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- | 1 | 2 | 3 |
5 |
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- | 1 | - | 1 |
total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15th |
One kayak
Men:
space | country | athlete | time |
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1 |
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Toni Prijon | 48: 13.8 |
2 |
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Pavel Bone | 48: 38.3 |
3 |
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Edouard Rothpletz | 48: 52.2 |
Women:
space | country | athlete | time |
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1 |
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Rosemarie Bisinger | 50: 47.9 |
2 |
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Inge Waltemathe | 52: 03.3 |
3 |
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Eva Setzkorn | 52: 36.4 |
Canadians
Men:
space | country | athlete | time |
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1 |
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Manfred Schubert | 52: 45.6 |
2 |
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Jean Claude Tochon | 52: 53.3 |
3 |
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Karl-Heinz Wozniak | 53: 56.5 |
Two-man Canadians
Men:
space | country | athlete | time |
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1 |
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Dransart - Turlier | 49: 50.5 |
2 |
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Garnier - Grossmann | 50: 02.4 |
3 |
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Dussuet - Kadruka | 50: 08.6 |
Mixed:
space | country | athlete | time |
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1 |
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Malicet - Malicet | 52: 19.6 |
2 |
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Gitton - Gitton | 53: 43.5 |
3 |
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Guette - Olry | 54: 04.1 |
Individual evidence
- ^ HE Vespers: 50 years of the International Canu Federation. 1973.