Canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Sprint
	C-1 1000 m
	C-2 1000 m
	C-2 10000 m
	K-1 1000 m
	K-1 10000 m
	K-1 10000 m folding
	K-2 1000 m
	K-2 10000 m
	K-2 10000 m folding

These are the results of the men's K-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-man canoe sprint kayaks. Heats and final took place on Saturday, August 8.

Twenty-four canoeists from twelve nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Adolf Kainz and Alfons Dorfner (AUT)	Ewald Tilker and Fritz Bondroit (GER)	Nicolaas Tates and Wim van der Kroft (NED)

Results

Heats

The 12 teams first raced in two heats. The top four teams in each heat advanced directly to the final.

Heat 1

Place	Canoeist	Time	Qual.
1	Adolf Kainz and Alfons Dorfner (AUT)	4:10.0	QF
2	Nicolaas Tates and Wim van der Kroft (NED)	4:22.2	QF
3	František Brzák and Josef Dusil (TCH)	4:22.7	QF
4	Verner Løvgreen and Axel Svendsen (DEN)	4:24.8	QF
5	Ernest Riedel and Burr Folks (USA)	4:24.8
6	René Lacelle and Jules Mackowiak (FRA)	4:34.6

Heat 2

Place	Canoeist	Time	Qual.
1	Sixten Jansson and Gunnar Lundqvist (SWE)	4:11.8	QF
2	Ewald Tilker and Fritz Bondroit (GER)	4:11.0	QF
3	Rudolf Vilim and Werner Klingelfuss (SUI)	4:30.8	QF
4	Edward Deir and Frank Willis (CAN)	4:32.0	QF
5	Frans De Blaes and Albert Joris (BEL)	4:42.1
6	Gábor Cseh and Sándor Gelle (HUN)	4:50.7

Final

Place	Canoeist	Time
1	Adolf Kainz and Alfons Dorfner (AUT)	4:03.8
2	Ewald Tilker and Fritz Bondroit (GER)	4:08.9
3	Nicolaas Tates and Wim van der Kroft (NED)	4:12.2
4	František Brzák and Josef Dusil (TCH)	4:15.2
5	Rudolf Vilim and Werner Klingelfuss (SUI)	4:22.8
6	Edward Deir and Frank Willis (CAN)	4:24.5
7	Verner Løvgreen and Axel Svendsen (DEN)	4:26.6
—	Sixten Jansson and Gunnar Lundqvist (SWE)	DSQ

Jannson and Lundqvist originally finished second, but were disqualified for bumping into Tilker and Bondroit.

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics Official Report Volume 2. p. 1022.
• Sports Reference.com 1936 K-2 1000 m results. - accessed September 1, 2008.
• Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Kayak Pairs: 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press, Limited. p. 474.