Canoeing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 1000 metres

Canoeing at the
1948 Summer Olympics
Sprint
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

These are the results of the men's C-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The C-2 event is raced by two-man sprint canoes and was held on August 12.

Final

With only eight teams competing, a final was held.

Rank Canoers Country Time
1st, gold medalist(s) Jan Brzák-Felix
Bohumil Kudrna		 Czechoslovakia 5:07.1
2nd, silver medalist(s) Steven Lysak
Stephen Macknowski		 United States 5:08.2
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Georges Dransart
Georges Gandil		 France 5:15.2
4 Douglas Bennett
Harry Poulton		 Canada 5:20.7
5 Karl Molnar
Viktor Salmhofer		 Austria 5:37.3
6 Gunnar Johannson
Werner Wettersten		 Sweden 5:44.9
7 Mike Symons
Hugh Van Zwanenberg		 Great Britain 5:50.9
- Hubert Coomans
Jean Dubois		 Belgium DNF

The Belgian team did not finish to a man falling overboard during the final.

References

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