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  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  Germany
K-2 1000 metres	Michael Scheuer and Meinrad Miltenberger  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  Germany	Dennis Green and Walter Brown  Australia

Women's event

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

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	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.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-20.