Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Canoeing
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Canoeing; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
No. of events	9
	← 1952 1960 →

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.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania	3	0	0	3
2	Soviet Union	2	3	2	7
3	Sweden	2	0	0	2
4	Hungary	1	3	3	7
5	United Team of Germany	1	2	1	4
6	France	0	1	0	1
7	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		9	9	9	27

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

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