Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 10000 metres

The men's K-2 10000 metres was a competition in canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-man canoe sprint kayaks. This would the last time this event was held in the Summer Olympics, though it would be held at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships from 1938 to 1993.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
János Urányi and László Fábián (HUN)	Fritz Briel and Theodor Kleine (EUA)	Dennis Green and Walter Brown (AUS)

Final

The final took place November 30.

	János Urányi and László Fábián (HUN)	43:37.0
	Fritz Briel and Theodor Kleine (EUA)	43:40.6
	Dennis Green and Walter Brown (AUS)	43:43.2
4.	Hans Wetterström and Carl Sundin (SWE)	44:06.7
5.	Yevgeny Yatsinenko and Sergey Klimov (URS)	45:49.3
6.	Miroslav Jemelka and Rudolf Klabouch (TCH)	46:13.1
7.	Yrjö Hietanen and Simo Kuismanen (FIN)	46:40.4
8.	Brian Bullivant and Raymond Blick (GBR)	47:03.7
9.	Maurice Graffen and Michel Meyer (FRA)	47:12.8
10.	Jerzy Górski and Stefan Kapłaniak (POL)	47:21.5
11.	Alfred Schmidtberger and Hermann Salzner (AUT)	49:03.7
12.	Edward Houston and Kenneth Wilson (USA)	51:25.8

References

• 1956 Summer Olympics official report. p. 403.
• International Canoe Federation historical results to 2006 (Olympic and world for all disciplines).
• Sports-reference.com 1956 K-2 10000 m results Archived 2020-04-18 at the Wayback Machine