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
	Jan Brzák-Felix Bohumil Kudrna	Czechoslovakia	5:07.1
	Steven Lysak Stephen Macknowski	United States	5:08.2
	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

• 1948 Summer Olympics official report. p. 316.
• Sports reference.com 1948 C-2 1000 m results