Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres

Canoeing at the 1952 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
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K-1 10000 m		men
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K-2 10000 m		men

These are the results of the men's K-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-man canoe sprint kayaks. Heats and final took place on July 28.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	Lars Glasser and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE)	Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)

Heats

The 19 teams first raced in three heats. The top three teams in each heat advanced directly to the final.

Heat 1
1.	Lars Glassèr and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE)	3:51.7	QF
2.	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	3:53.0	QF
3.	Egon Dyg and Andreas Lind (DEN)	3:53.3	QF
4.	Anatoly Troshenkov and Igor Kuznetsov (URS)	3:54.0
5.	Jan Matocha and Otto Kroutil (TCH)	3:56.3
6.	Eligio Valentino and Pio Vennettilli (ITA)	4:03.8
7.	Frank Prout and Roland Prout (GBR)	4:07.6
Heat 2
1.	Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)	3:55.2	QF
2.	Gustav Schmidt and Helmut Noller (GER)	3:55.7	QF
3.	Ivar Mathisen and Knut Østby (NOR)	3:58.2	QF
4.	Heinrich Hess and Kurt Zimmer (SAA)	4:01.4
5.	Anton Kuster and Hans Straub (SUI)	4:14.9
6.	Johnny Lucas and Léon Roth (LUX)	4:21.6
Heat 3
1.	Cees Koch and Jan Klingers (NED)	3:54.3	QF
2.	István Granek and János Kulcsár (HUN)	3:54.5	QF
3.	Maurice Graffen and Marcel Renaud (FRA)	3:54.8	QF
4.	Frans Van den Berghen and Albert Van de Vliet (BEL)	3:59.2
5.	Thomas Horton and John Eiseman (USA)	4:02.9
6.	Robert Cordner and George Ward (CAN)	4:27.5

Final

	Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)	3:51.1
	Lars Glassèr and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE)	3:51.1
	Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)	3:51.4
4.	Gustav Schmidt and Helmut Noller (GER)	3:51.8
5.	Ivar Mathisen and Knut Østby (NOR)	3:54.7
6.	Maurice Graffen and Marcel Renaud (FRA)	3:55.1
7.	István Granek and János Kulcsár (HUN)	3:55.1
8.	Cees Koch and Jan Klingers (NED)	3:55.8
9.	Egon Dyg and Andreas Lind (DEN)	3:59.3

The Finnish duo won the gold medal after studying a photo finish of the event.

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics official report. p. 632.
• Sports-Reference.com 1952 K-2 1000 m results.
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Pairs: 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press, Limited. p. 475.