The 1959 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the second time. It was the 6th edition. The mixed C2 team event was not held at these championships after taking place in the previous one. The Swiss city hosted the championships previously in 1949.
| 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 | 421 | 453 | 470 | |||||||||
| C1 team | Luděk Beneš Václav Janovský Vladimír Jirásek | 772 | Manfred Schubert Karl-Heinz Wozniak Gert Kleinert | 872 | Jean-Claude Tochon Marcel Roth Roland Bardet | 1078 | ||||||
| C2 | Dieter Friedrich Horst Kleinert | 395 | Václav Havel Josef Hendrych | 446 | Dieter Göthe Lothar Schubert | 448 | ||||||
| C2 team | Dieter Friedrich & Horst Kleinert Dieter Göthe & Lothar Schubert Rudolf Seifert & Manfred Glöckner | 664 | Václav Havel & Josef Hendrych Milan Kný & Milan Horyna Vladimír Lánský & Miroslav Čihák | 811 | Charles Dussuet & Henri Kadrnka Jean Pessina & Robert Zürcher Enz & Hiltbrand | 912 |
| 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 | 335 | 344 | 395.3 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Eberhard Gläser Heinz Bielig Günther Möbius | 529 | Jan Pára Vladimír Cibák Zdeněk Košťál | 614 | Manfred Vogt Georg Samhuber Werner Vogler | 653 |
| 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 | Rita Behrend Manfred Merkel | 610 | Margitta Troger Günther Merkel | 810 | Ellen Krügel Siegfried Seidemann | 849 |
| 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 | 589 | 597 | 627 | |||||||||
| Folding K1 team | Ursula Gläser Eva Setzkorn Elfriede Hugo | 1104 | - | - |