These are the results of the men's C-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, nine events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous two Games in 1948 and 1952. The competition was held on Lake Wendouree in Ballarat.-Men's events:...

. The C-2 event is raced by two-man sprint canoe

Sprint canoe

A sprint canoe is a special type of canoe used in the sport of flatwater canoe racing.A one-person sprint canoe is 5.20 metres long; a traveling canoe of a similar length would be suitable for 2 to 3 people with gear...

s. Because there were ten teams in this event, heats were introduced. Both the heats and final took place on December 1.

Medalists

Gold
Silver
Bronze

Heats

The ten teams first raced in two heats. The top four teams in each heat advanced directly to the final.

Heat 1
1.		4:48.1	QF
2.		4:52.4	QF
3.		5:05.9	QF
4.		5:07.5	QF
5.		5:19.8
Heat 2
1.		5:02.5	QF
2.		5:04.6	QF
3.		5:07.2	QF
4.		5:08.9	QF
5.		5:16.1

Final

		4:47.4
		4:48.6
		4:54.3
4.		4:57.7
5.		5:03.0
6.		5:04.4
7.		5:11.0
-		DQ

The Danes

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

originally finished seventh in the final, but were disqualified for reasons not disclosed in the official report.