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	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
C1	Charles Dussuet (SUI)	384.4	Václav Nič (TCH)	422.0	Vladimír Jirásek (TCH)	449.2
C1 team	Czechoslovakia Vladimír Jirásek Jan Šulc Stanislav Jánský	1321.8	Switzerland Jean-Paul Rössinger Roland Bardet Charles Dussuet	1670.0	France Jacques Marsigny Jacques Velard Pierre Biehler	1713.2
C2	Switzerland Charles Dussuet Jean Engler	354.6	Czechoslovakia Václav Nič Jan Šulc	363.6	France Pierre d'Alençon Jean-Luc Houssaye	384.7
C2 team	France René Gavinet & Simon Gavinet Claude Neveu & Roger Paris Pierre d'Alençon & Jean-Luc Houssaye	1440.0	Switzerland Jean-Paul Rössinger & R. Junod Pierre Rössinger & Pierre Dufour Charles Dussuet & Jean Engler	1466.4	Czechoslovakia Josef Hendrych & Jiří Hradil Václav Havel & Jiří Pecka Miroslav Čihák & Jan Pecka	1537.6

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
Folding K1	Walter Kirschbaum (FRG)	330.1	Rudolf Sausgruber (AUT)	333.3	Milan Zadel (YUG)	333.5
Folding K1 team	Austria Franz Grafetsberger Hans Herbist Rudolf Sausgruber	1020.6	East Germany Dieter Frank Helmuth Setzkorn Hilmar Pawliczek	1059.4	West Germany Karl Bruns Karl Rath Günter Deuble	1112.6

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
Folding K1	Fritzi Schwingl (AUT)	326.8	Eva Setzkorn (GDR)	339.9	Dana Martanová (TCH)	383.5
Folding K1 team	Czechoslovakia Jaroslava Havlová Dana Martanová Květa Havlová	1222.2	East Germany Anneliese Borwitz Eveline Pawliczek Eva Setzkorn	1255.1	Austria Ulrike Werner Gertrude Will Fritzi Schwingl	1395.0

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	2	2	3	7
2	Switzerland (SUI)	2	2	0	4
3	Austria (AUT)	2	1	1	4
4	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
5	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	1	2
6	East Germany (GDR)	0	3	0	3
7	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

• Results
• International Canoe Federation
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived November 9, 2009)