Olympic Summer Games 1936 / Canoe - single kayak 10,000 m (folding boat)

sport	canoe
discipline	K-1 10,000 m folding boat
gender	Men
Attendees	13 athletes from 13 countries
Competition location	Regatta course Berlin-Grünau
Competition phase	August 7, 1936
Winning time	45: 48.9 min
Medalist Gregor Hradetzky ( AUT ) Henri Eberhardt ( FRA ) Xaver Hörmann ( GER )

Canoeing competitions at the 1936 Olympic Games
C-1 1000 m	Men
C-2 1000 m	Men
C-2 10,000 m	Men
K-1 1000 m	Men
K-1 10,000 m	Men
K-2 1000 m	Men
K-2 10,000 m	Men
K-1 10,000 m folding boat	Men
K-2 10,000 m folding boat	Men

The competition with the folding single kayak over 10,000 meters at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held on August 7th on the Berlin-Grünau regatta course .

The competition consisted of one race. At the beginning of the race, the German Xaver Hörmann took the lead early on, but the Austrian Gregor Hradetzky and Henri Eberhardt from France followed suit . So the lead changed between these three athletes. So the race was decided on the last kilometer when the Austrian tore a gap the length of a boat and finally drove three seconds ahead of the French to an Olympic victory.

Results

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Gregor Hradetzky	Austria	50: 01.2 min
2	Henri Eberhardt	France	50: 04.2 min
3	Xaver Hörmann	German Empire	50: 06.5 min
4th	Lennart Dozzi	Sweden	51: 23.8 min
5	František Svoboda	Czechoslovakia	51: 52.5 min
6th	Hans Mooser	Switzerland	52: 43.8 min
7th	Frans Nordberg	Finland	52: 45.8 min
8th	George Lawton	Great Britain	52: 50.0 min
9	Jan Vrolijk	Netherlands	54: 05.9 min
10	Burr Folks	United States	55: 32.1 min
11	Mirko Vincens	Yugoslavia	55: 41.5 min
12	Joseph Treinen	Luxembourg	57: 14.8 min
13	Jules Deneumoulin	Belgium	58: 20.1 min

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