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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 1000 metres	Leon Rotman Romania	István Hernek Hungary	Gennady Bukharin Soviet Union
C-1 10000 metres	Leon Rotman Romania	János Parti Hungary	Gennady Bukharin Soviet Union
C-2 1000 metres	Alexe Dumitru and Simion Ismailciuc Romania	Pavel Kharin and Gratsian Botev Soviet Union	Károly Wieland and Ferenc Mohácsi Hungary
C-2 10000 metres	Pavel Kharin and Gratsian Botev Soviet Union	Georges Dransart and Marcel Renaud France	Imre Farkas and József Hunics Hungary
K-1 1000 metres	Gert Fredriksson Sweden	Igor Pissarov Soviet Union	Lajos Kiss Hungary
K-1 10000 metres	Gert Fredriksson Sweden	Ferenc Hatlaczky Hungary	Michael Scheuer United Team of Germany
K-2 1000 metres	Michael Scheuer and Meinrad Miltenberger United Team of Germany	Mikhail Kaaleste and Anatoli Demitkov Soviet Union	Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann Austria
K-2 10000 metres	János Urányi and László Fábián Hungary	Fritz Briel and Theodor Kleine United Team of Germany	Dennis Green and Walter Brown Australia

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Yelizaveta Dementyeva Soviet Union	Therese Zenz United Team of Germany	Tove Søby Denmark

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

Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne/Stockholm)

Athletics Association football Australian football (demonstration) Baseball (demonstration) Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Gymnastics Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Canoeing and kayaking at the Summer Olympics

	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 (demonstration) 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

List of medalists men women List of venues

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