Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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C-1 1000 m		men
C-1 10000 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
C-2 10000 m		men
K-1 500 m				women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-1 10000 m		men
K-2 1000 m		men
K-2 10000 m		men

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, nine events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous two Games in 1948 and 1952. The competition was held on Lake Wendouree in Ballarat.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Leon Rotman (ROU)	István Hernek (HUN)	Gennady Bukharin (URS)
C-1 10000 metres	Leon Rotman (ROU)	János Parti (HUN)	Gennady Bukharin (URS)
C-2 1000 metres	Alexe Dumitru and Simion Ismailciuc (ROU)	Pavel Kharin and Gratsian Botev (URS)	Károly Wieland and Ferenc Mohácsi (HUN)
C-2 10000 metres	Pavel Kharin and Gratsian Botev (URS)	Georges Dransart and Marcel Renaud (FRA)	Imre Farkas and József Hunics (HUN)
K-1 1000 metres	Gert Fredriksson (SWE)	Igor Pissarov (URS)	Lajos Kiss (HUN)
K-1 10000 metres	Gert Fredriksson (SWE)	Ferenc Hatlaczky (HUN)	Michael Scheuer (EUA)
K-2 1000 metres	Michael Scheuer and Meinrad Miltenberger (EUA)	Mikhail Kaaleste and Anatoli Demitkov (URS)	Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)
K-2 10000 metres	János Urányi and László Fábián (HUN)	Fritz Briel and Theodor Kleine (EUA)	Dennis Green and Walter Brown (AUS)

Women's event

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Yelizaveta Dementyeva (URS)	Therese Zenz (EUA)	Tove Søby (DEN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROU)	3	0	0	3
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	2	7
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	3	3	7
5	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	2	1	4
6	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
7	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

References

• 1956 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 396–410.