Canoeing Olympic Games 1956 at Melbourne (aus) Women: 500 m K1 December 1: Final: 1. Yelisaveta Dementyeva (sov) 2:18.9 2. Therese Zenz (ger) 2:19.6 3. Tove Søby (den) 2:22.3 4. Cecilia Berkes-Hartmann (hun) 2:23.5 5. Edith Cochrane (aus) 2:23.8 6. Daniela Walkowiak (pol) 2:24.1 7. Patricia Moody (gbr) 2:25.3 8. Eva Marion (fra) 2:27.9