Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres
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These are the results of the men's K-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-man canoe sprint kayaks. Heats and final took place on July 28.
Medalists
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN) |
Lars Glasser and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE) |
Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT) |
Heats
The 19 teams first raced in three heats. The top three teams in each heat advanced directly to the final.
Heat 1 | |||
1. | Lars Glassèr and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE) | 3:51.7 | QF |
2. | Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN) | 3:53.0 | QF |
3. | Egon Dyg and Andreas Lind (DEN) | 3:53.3 | QF |
4. | Anatoly Troshenkov and Igor Kuznetsov (URS) | 3:54.0 | |
5. | Jan Matocha and Otto Kroutil (TCH) | 3:56.3 | |
6. | Eligio Valentino and Pio Vennettilli (ITA) | 4:03.8 | |
7. | Frank Prout and Roland Prout (GBR) | 4:07.6 | |
Heat 2 | |||
1. | Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT) | 3:55.2 | QF |
2. | Gustav Schmidt and Helmut Noller (GER) | 3:55.7 | QF |
3. | Ivar Mathisen and Knut Østby (NOR) | 3:58.2 | QF |
4. | Heinrich Hess and Kurt Zimmer (SAA) | 4:01.4 | |
5. | Anton Kuster and Hans Straub (SUI) | 4:14.9 | |
6. | Johnny Lucas and Léon Roth (LUX) | 4:21.6 | |
Heat 3 | |||
1. | Cees Koch and Jan Klingers (NED) | 3:54.3 | QF |
2. | István Granek and János Kulcsár (HUN) | 3:54.5 | QF |
3. | Maurice Graffen and Marcel Renaud (FRA) | 3:54.8 | QF |
4. | Frans Van den Berghen and Albert Van de Vliet (BEL) | 3:59.2 | |
5. | Thomas Horton and John Eiseman (USA) | 4:02.9 | |
6. | Robert Cordner and George Ward (CAN) | 4:27.5 |
Final
Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN) | 3:51.1 | |
Lars Glassèr and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE) | 3:51.1 | |
Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT) | 3:51.4 | |
4. | Gustav Schmidt and Helmut Noller (GER) | 3:51.8 |
5. | Ivar Mathisen and Knut Østby (NOR) | 3:54.7 |
6. | Maurice Graffen and Marcel Renaud (FRA) | 3:55.1 |
7. | István Granek and János Kulcsár (HUN) | 3:55.1 |
8. | Cees Koch and Jan Klingers (NED) | 3:55.8 |
9. | Egon Dyg and Andreas Lind (DEN) | 3:59.3 |
The Finnish duo won the gold medal after studying a photo finish of the event.
References
- 1952 Summer Olympics official report. p. 632.
- Sports-Reference.com 1952 K-2 1000 m results.
- 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. 475.
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