The 1955 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Tacen, Yugoslavia (now in Slovenia) under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 4th edition. The Mixed C2 event debuted at these championships.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | 244.0 | 262.0 | 284.5 | |||||||||
| C1 team | Vladimír Jirásek Jiří Hradil Luděk Beneš | 362.0 | Karl-Heinz Wozniak Dieter Fritzsche Manfred Schubert | 617.5 | Roland Bardet Jean-Claude Tochon Robert Inhelder | 858.0 | ||||||
| C2 | Claude Neveu Roger Paris | 270.9 | Dieter Friedrich Horst Kleinert | 272.2 | František Hrabě Jiří Kotana | 285.3 | ||||||
| C2 team | František Hrabě & Jiří Kotana Vladimír Lánský & Josef Hendrych Rudolf Flégr & Milan Řehoř | 409.7 | Dieter Friedrich & Horst Kleinert Dieter Göthe & Helmut Weise Franz Brendel & Günter Grosswig | 515.8 | Wolfram Steinwendtner & Bruno Kerbl Harry Jarosch & Eduard Haider Alfred Falkner & Richard Schauer | 718.9 |
| 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 | 223.5 | 231.2 | 243.0 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Manfred Vogt Sigi Holzbauer Alois Würfmannsdobler | 326.6 | Robert Fabian Rudolf Klepp Eduard Radelspöck | 395.0 | Dimitrij Skolil Vladimír Cibák Zdeněk Matějovský | 402.2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C2 | Dana Martanová Jiří Pecka | 396.1 | Simone Gavinet René Gavinet | 461.1 | Jarmila Pacherová Miroslav Čihák | 505.0 |
| 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 | 350.5 | 353.4 | 373.0 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Eva Setzkorn Elfriede Hugo Karin Tietze | 574.0 | Rosemarie Biesinger Anni Reifinger Hanni Schulte | 696.1 | Jaroslava Havlová Květa Havlová Renata Knýová |