Canoeing Olympic Games 1956 at Melbourne (aus) Men: 1000 m K2 December 1: Final: 1. Germany (Michael Scheuer, Meinard Mittenberger) 3:49.6 2. Soviet Union (Mikhail Kaaleste, Anatoliy Demitkov) 3:51.4 3. Austria (Max Raub, Herbert Wiedermann) 3:55.8 4. Romania (Mircea Anastasescu, Stavru Teodorov) 3:56.1 5. France (Maurice Graffen, Michel Meyer) 3:58.3 6. Belgium (Henri Verbrugghe, German van de Moere) 3:58.7 7. Australia (Walter Brown, Dennis Green) 3:59.1 8. Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Jemelka, Rudolph Klabouch) 4:01.4 9. Great Britain (Brian Bullivant, Raymond Blick) 4:05.9