Canoeing Olympic Games 1972 at München (wge) Men: 1000 m K2 September 9: Final: 1. Soviet Union (Nikolay Gorbachev, Viktor Kratasyuk) 3:31.23 2. Hungary (József Deme, János Ratkai) 3:32.00 3. Poland (Wladyslaw Suszkiewicz, Rafal Piszcz) 3:33.83 4. East Germany (Reiner Kurth, Alexander Statnow) 3:34.16 5. Romania (Costel Cosnita, Vasile Simiocenco) 3:35.66 6. France (Jean-Pierre Cordebois, Didier Niquet) 3:36.51 7. Austria (Günther Pfaff, Helmut Hediger) 3:36.61 8. West Germany (Hans-Jürgen Riemenschneider, Horst Mattern) 3:38.67 9. Bulgaria (Vasil Chilingirov, Alexander Donkov) 3:45.40