The 1953 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Meran, Italy under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 3rd edition.
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
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| C1 | 384.4 | 422.0 | 449.2 | |||||||||
| C1 team | Vladimír Jirásek Jan Šulc Stanislav Jánský | 1321.8 | Jean-Paul Rössinger Roland Bardet Charles Dussuet | 1670.0 | Jacques Marsigny Jacques Velard Pierre Biehler | 1713.2 | ||||||
| C2 | Charles Dussuet Jean Engler | 354.6 | Václav Nič Jan Šulc | 363.6 | Pierre d'Alençon Jean-Luc Houssaye | 384.7 | ||||||
| C2 team | René Gavinet & Simon Gavinet Claude Neveu & Roger Paris Pierre d'Alençon & Jean-Luc Houssaye | 1440.0 | Jean-Paul Rössinger & R. Junod Pierre Rössinger & Pierre Dufour Charles Dussuet & Jean Engler | 1466.4 | Josef Hendrych & Jiří Hradil Václav Havel & Jiří Pecka Miroslav Čihák & Jan Pecka | 1537.6 |
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
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| Folding K1 | 330.1 | 333.3 | 333.5 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Franz Grafetsberger Hans Herbist Rudolf Sausgruber | 1020.6 | Dieter Frank Helmuth Setzkorn Hilmar Pawliczek | 1059.4 | Karl Bruns Karl Rath Günter Deuble | 1112.6 |
| Event | align=center bgcolor="gold" | Gold | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="silver" | Silver | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points | align=center bgcolor="CC9966" | Bronze | align=center bgcolor="EFEFEF" | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Folding K1 | 326.8 | 339.9 | 383.5 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Jaroslava Havlová Dana Martanová Květa Havlová | 1222.2 | Anneliese Borwitz Eveline Pawliczek Eva Setzkorn | 1255.1 | Ulrike Werner Gertrude Will Fritzi Schwingl | 1395.0 |