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 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	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
Totals (9 entries)		9	9	9	27

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	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 (ROU)	Pavel Kharin and Gratsian Botev (URS)	Károly Wieland and Ferenc Mohácsi (HUN)
C-2 10000 metres	Pavel Kharin and Gratsian Botev (URS)	Georges Dransart and Marcel Renaud (FRA)	Imre Farkas and József Hunics (HUN)
K-1 1000 metres	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Igor Pissarov  Soviet Union	Lajos Kiss  Hungary
K-1 10000 metres	Gert Fredriksson  Sweden	Ferenc Hatlaczky  Hungary	Michel Scheuer  United Team of Germany
K-2 1000 metres	Michel Scheuer and Meinrad Miltenberger (EUA)	Mikhail Kaaleste and Anatoli Demitkov (URS)	Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT)
K-2 10000 metres	János Urányi and László Fábián (HUN)	Fritz Briel and Theodor Kleine (EUA)	Dennis Green and Walter Brown (AUS)

Women's event

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Yelizaveta Dementyeva  Soviet Union	Therese Zenz  United Team of Germany	Tove Søby  Denmark

References

• 1956 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 396–410.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 December 2006.