Canoeing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 1000 metres

These are the results of the men's C-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The C-2 event is raced by two-man sprint canoes and was held on August 12.

Final

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With only eight teams competing, a final was held.

Rank Canoeists Country Time
  Jan Brzák-Felix
Bohumil Kudrna
  Czechoslovakia 5:07.1
  Steven Lysak
Stephen Macknowski
  United States 5:08.2
  Georges Dransart
Georges Gandil
  France 5:15.2
4 Douglas Bennett
Harry Poulton
  Canada 5:20.7
5 Karl Molnar
Viktor Salmhofer
  Austria 5:37.3
6 Gunnar Johannson
Werner Wettersten
  Sweden 5:44.9
7 Mike Symons
Hugh Van Zwanenberg
  Great Britain 5:50.9
- Hubert Coomans
Jean Dubois
  Belgium DNF

The Belgian team did not finish due to a man falling overboard during the final.

References

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