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.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's event 2 Medal table 3 Reference

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

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

[edit] Women's event

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

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROM)	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	United Team of 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

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on December 20, 2006.

Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne/Stockholm)
Athletics • Australian football (demonstration) • Baseball (demonstration) • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Canoeing at the Summer Olympics
1924 (demonstration) • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 See also: List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (men) and List of Olympic medalists in canoeing (women)