Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, nine events in flatwater canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous two Games in 1948 and 1952.

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[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
C-1 1000 metres Romania Leon Rotman
Romania (ROM)
Hungary Istvan Hernek
Hungary (HUN)
Soviet Union Gennady Bukharin
Soviet Union (URS)
C-1 10000 metres Romania Leon Rotman
Romania (ROM)
Hungary Janos Parti
Hungary (HUN)
Soviet Union Gennady Bukharin
Soviet Union (URS)
C-2 1000 metres Romania Romania (ROM)
Alexe Dumitru
Simion Ismailciuc
Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)
Pavel Kharin
Gratsian Botev
Hungary Hungary (HUN)
Karoly Wieland
Ferenc Mohacsi
C-2 10000 metres Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)
Pavel Kharin
Gratsian Botev
France France (FRA)
Georges Dransart
Marcel Renaud
Hungary Hungary (HUN)
Imre Farkas
Jozsef Hunics
K-1 1000 metres Sweden Gert Fredriksson
Sweden (SWE)
Soviet Union Igor Pissarev
Soviet Union (URS)
Hungary Lajos Kiss
Hungary (HUN)
K-1 10000 metres Sweden Gert Fredriksson
Sweden (SWE)
Hungary Ferenc Hatlaczky
Hungary (HUN)
United Team of Germany Michael Scheuer
United Team of Germany (EUA)
K-2 1000 metres United Team of Germany United Team of Germany (EUA)
Michael Scheuer
Meinrad Miltenberger
Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)
Mikhail Kaaleste
Anatoli Demitkov
Austria Austria (AUT)
Maximilian Raub
Herbert Wiedermann
K-2 10000 metres Hungary Hungary (HUN)
Janos Uranyi
Laszlo Fabian
United Team of Germany United Team of Germany (EUA)
Fritz Briel
Theodor Kleine
Australia Australia (AUS)
Dennis Green
Walter Brown

[edit] Women's event

Event Gold Silver Bronze
K-1 500 metres Soviet Union Elizaveta Dementyeva
Soviet Union (URS)
United Team of Germany Therese Zenz
United Team of Germany (EUA)
Denmark Tove Söby
Denmark (DEN)

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Romania Romania (ROM) 3 0 0 3
2 Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS) 2 3 2 7
3 Sweden Sweden (SWE) 2 0 0 2
4 Hungary Hungary (HUN) 1 3 3 7
5 United Team of Germany United Team of Germany (EUA) 1 2 1 4
6 France France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
7 Australia Australia (AUS) 0 0 1 1
Austria Austria (AUT) 0 0 1 1
Denmark Denmark (DEN) 0 0 1 1

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