1955 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

The 1955 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Tacen, Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. The Mixed C-2 event debuted at these championships.

Medal summary

Men's

Canoe

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
C-1  Vladimír Jirásek (TCH) 244.0  Luděk Beneš (TCH) 262.0  Karl-Heinz Wozniak (GDR) 284.5
C-1 team  Czechoslovakia
Vladimír Jirásek
Jiří Hradil
Luděk Beneš
362.0  East Germany
Karl-Heinz Wozniak
Dieter Fritzsche
Manfred Schubert
617.5   Switzerland
Roland Bardet
Jean-Claude Tochon
Robert Inhelder
858.0
C-2  France
Claude Neveu
Roger Paris
270.9  East Germany
Dieter Friedrich
Horst Kleinert
272.2  Czechoslovakia
František Hrabě
Jiří Kotana
285.3
C-2 team  Czechoslovakia
František Hrabě & Jiří Kotana
Vladimír Lánský & Josef Hendrych
Rudolf Flégr & Milan Řehoř
409.7  East Germany
Dieter Friedrich & Horst Kleinert
Dieter Göthe & Helmut Weise
Franz Brendel & Günter Grosswig
515.8  Austria
Wolfram Steinwendtner & Bruno Kerbl
Harry Jarosch & Eduard Haider
Alfred Falkner & Richard Schauer
718.9

Kayak

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
Folding K-1  Sigi Holzbauer (FRG) 223.5  Miloslav Duffek (SUI) 231.2  Jože Ilija (YUG) 243.0
Folding K-1 team  West Germany
Manfred Vogt
Sigi Holzbauer
Alois Würfmannsdobler
326.6  Austria
Robert Fabian
Rudolf Klepp
Eduard Radelspöck
395.0  Czechoslovakia
Dimitrij Skolil
Vladimír Cibák
Zdeněk Matějovský
402.2

Mixed

Canoe

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
C-2  Czechoslovakia
Dana Martanová
Jiří Pecka
396.1  France
Simone Gavinet
René Gavinet
461.1  Czechoslovakia
Jarmila Pacherová
Miroslav Čihák
505.0

Women's

Kayak

Event Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Points
Folding K-1  Rosemarie Biesinger (FRG) 350.5  Karin Tietze (GDR) 353.4  Eva Setzkorn (GDR) 373.0
Folding K-1 team  East Germany
Eva Setzkorn
Elfriede Hugo
Karin Tietze
574.0  West Germany
Rosemarie Biesinger
Anni Reifinger
Hanni Schulte
696.1  Czechoslovakia
Jaroslava Havlová
Květa Havlová
Renata Knýová

Medals table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Czechoslovakia 4 1 4 9
2  West Germany 3 1 0 4
3  East Germany 1 4 2 7
4  France 1 1 0 2
5  Austria 0 1 1 2
5   Switzerland 0 1 1 2
7  Yugoslavia 0 0 1 1
Total 9 9 9 27

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