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The 2006 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Prague, Czech Republic between 2-6 August 2006 under the auspices of International Canoe Federation at the Prague-Troja Canoeing Centre. It was the 30th edition. Prague became the second city to host both the slalom and sprint world championships, having hosted the latter in 1958 when Prague was part of Czechoslovakia. Nottingham, Great Britain was the first, hosting the slalom world championships in 1995 and the sprint world championships in 1981.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
C1	Tony Estanguet (FRA)	207.69	Michal Martikán (SVK)	209.00	Stanislav Ježek (CZE)	211.01
C1 team	Germany Stefan Pfannmöller Nico Bettge Jan Benzien	233.24	Czech Republic Tomáš Indruch Jan Mašek Stanislav Ježek	237.68	Great Britain David Florence Stuart McIntosh Daniel Goddard	245.51
C2	Czech Republic Jaroslav Volf Ondřej Štěpánek	224.67	Germany Marcus Becker Stefan Henze	226.86	Slovakia Pavol Hochschorner Peter Hochschorner	229.84
C2 team	Czech Republic Marek Jiras & Tomáš Máder Jaroslav Volf & Ondřej Štěpánek Jaroslav Pospíšil & Jaroslav Pollert	253.90	Germany Marcus Becker & Stefan Henze Felix Michel & Sebastian Piersig Kay Simon & Robby Simon	261.90	Slovakia Pavol Hochschorner & Peter Hochschorner Milan Kubáň & Marián Olejník Ľuboš Šoška & Peter Šoška	269.93

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
K1	Stefano Cipressi (ITA) Julien Billaut (FRA)^[1]	202.02 204.49	-		Campbell Walsh (GBR)	204.78
K1 team	France Fabien Lefèvre Julien Billaut Boris Neveu	223.51	Italy Daniele Molmenti Stefano Cipressi Diego Paolini	229.52	Poland Grzegorz Polaczyk Mateusz Polaczyk Dariusz Popiela	230.72

Event	Gold	Points	Silver	Points	Bronze	Points
K1	Jana Dukátová (SVK)	224.09	Fiona Pennie (GBR)	227.41	Jennifer Bongardt (GER)	229.29
K1 team	France Mathilde Pichery Émilie Fer Marie Gaspard	264.87	Czech Republic Štěpánka Hilgertová Irena Pavelková Marie Řihošková	265.88	Germany Jennifer Bongardt Claudia Bär Jasmin Schornberg	268.85


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	4	0	0	4
2	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	2	1	5
3	Germany (GER)	1	2	2	5
4	Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	2	4
5	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
7	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		9	7	8	24

^ "Regarding the title of Slalom Racing World Champion in K1 Men awarded in August 2006 to Stefano Cipressi (ITA), the ICF Board of Directors have decided, in the interests of fairness and sportsmanship, that a further Gold Medal is awarded to Julien Billaut (FRA). They are both declared World Champion 2006." (note from the official results)