1956 Summer Olympics / Canoe

At the XVI. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne , a total of nine canoeing competitions were held, eight for men and one for women. The long courses (10,000 m) were held on November 30th, the short courses (1,000 m or 500 m) on December 1st.

Men

Single kayak 1000 m

Held on December 1st, 13 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Gert Fredriksson	4: 12.8 min
2	URS	Igor Pissarev	4: 15.3 min
3	HUN	Lajos Kiss	4: 16.2 min
4th	POLE	Stefan Kaplaniak	4: 19.8 min
5	FRA	Louis Gantois	4: 22.1 min
6th	TCH	Ladislav Cepciansky	4: 23.2 min
		...
8th	EUA	Ernst Steinhauer	4: 25.5 min

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Single kayak 10,000 m

Held on November 30th, 11 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	SWE	Gert Fredriksson	47: 43.4 min
2	HUN	Ferenc Hatlaczky	47: 53.3 min
3	EUA	Michel Scheuer	48: 00.3 min
4th	FIN	Thorwald Strömberg	48: 15.8 min
5	URS	Igor Pissarev	49: 58.2 min
6th	TCH	Ladislav Cepciansky	50: 08.2 min

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Two-person kayak 1000 m

Held on December 1st, 15 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	EUA	Michel Scheuer Meinrad Miltenberger	3: 49.6 min
2	URS	Mihhail Kaaleste Anatoly Demitkov	3: 51.4 min
3	AUT	Max Raub Herbert Wiedermann	3: 55.8 min
4th	ROU	Mircea Anastasescu Stavru Teodorov	3: 56.1 min
5	FRA	Maurice Graffen Michel Meyer	3: 58.3 min
6th	BEL	Henri Verbrugghe Germain van de Moere	3: 58.7 min

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Two-person kayak 10,000 m

Held on November 30th, 12 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	HUN	János Urányi László Fábián	43: 37.0 min
2	EUA	Fritz Briel Theo Kleine	43: 40.6 min
3	OUT	Dennis Green Walter Brown	43: 43.2 min
4th	SWE	Hans Wetterström Carl Sundin	44: 06.7 min
5	URS	Yevhen Jazynenko Sergei Klimov	45: 59.3 min
6th	TCH	Mirislav Jemelka Rudolf Klabouch	46: 13.1 min
		...
11	AUT	Hermann Salzner Alfred Schmidtberger	49: 03.7 min

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Single canoe 1000 m

Held on December 1st, 9 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	ROU	Leon Rotman	5: 05.3 min
2	HUN	Istvan Hernek	5: 06.2 min
3	URS	Gennady Bukharin	5: 12.7 min
4th	TCH	Karel Hradil	5: 15.9 min
5	EUA	Herbert Kirschner	5: 18.6 min
6th	SWE	Verner Wettersten	5: 28.0 min

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Single canoe 10,000 m

Held on November 30th, 9 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	ROU	Leon Rotman	56: 41.0 min
2	HUN	János Parti	57: 11.0 min
3	URS	Gennady Bukharin	57: 14.5 min
4th	TCH	Jan Vockner	57: 44.5 min
5	EUA	Franz Johannsen	58: 50.0 min
6th	SWE	Verner Wettersten	59: 24.7 min

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Two-person canoe 1000 m

Held on December 1st, 10 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	ROU	Alexe Dumitru Simion Ismailciuc	4: 47.4 min
2	URS	Pawel Charin Grazian Botow	4: 48.6 min
3	HUN	Károly Wieland Ferenc Mohácsi	4: 54.3 min

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Two-man canoe 10,000 m

Held on November 30th, 10 participants

space	country	athlete	time
1	URS	Pawel Charin Grazian Botow	54: 02.4 min
2	FRA	Georges Dransart Marcel Renaud	54: 48.3 min
3	HUN	Imre Farkas József Hunics	55: 15.6 min

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Women

Single kayak 500 m

Held on December 1st, 10 participants

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	URS	Yelisaveta Dementeva	2: 18.9 min
2	EUA	Therese Zenz	2: 19.6 min
3	THE	Tove Søby	2: 22.3 min

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Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Romania	3	0	0	3
2	Soviet Union	2	3	2	7th
3	Sweden	2	0	0	2
4th	Hungary	1	3	3	7th
5	Germany	1	2	1	4th
6th	France	0	1	0	1
7th	Australia	0	0	1	1
7th	Austria	0	0	1	1
7th	Denmark	0	0	1	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Official IOC Report 1956 (PDF; 32.5 MB) p. 396 ff