title: Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres
text: # Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's K-2 1000 metres
  
  These are the results of the men's K-2 1000 metres competition in canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The K-2 event is raced by two-man canoe sprint kayaks. Heats and final took place on July 28.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - |
  | Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN) | Lars Glassér and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE) | Maximilian Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT) |
  
  ## Heats
  
  The 19 teams first raced in three heats. The top three teams in each heat advanced directly to the final.
  
  Heat 1 :
  
  | 1. | Lars Glassér and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE) | 3:51.7 | QF |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2. | Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN) | 3:53.0 | QF |
  | 3. | Egon Dyg and Andreas Lind (DEN) | 3:53.3 | QF |
  | 4. | Anatoly Troshenkov and Igor Kuznetsov (URS) | 3:54.0 | |
  | 5. | Jan Matocha and Otto Kroutil (TCH) | 3:56.3 | |
  | 6. | Eligio Valentino and Pio Vennettilli (ITA) | 4:03.8 | |
  | 7. | Frank Prout and Roland Prout (GBR) | 4:07.6 | |
  | Heat 2 ||||
  | 1. | Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT) | 3:55.2 | QF |
  | 2. | Gustav Schmidt and Helmut Noller (GER) | 3:55.7 | QF |
  | 3. | Ivar Mathisen and Knut Østby (NOR) | 3:58.2 | QF |
  | 4. | Heinrich Hess and Kurt Zimmer (SAA) | 4:01.4 | |
  | 5. | Anton Kuster and Hans Straub (SUI) | 4:14.9 | |
  | 6. | Johnny Lucas and Léon Roth (LUX) | 4:21.6 | |
  | Heat 3 ||||
  | 1. | Cees Koch and Jan Klingers (NED) | 3:54.3 | QF |
  | 2. | István Granek and János Kulcsár (HUN) | 3:54.5 | QF |
  | 3. | Maurice Graffen and Marcel Renaud (FRA) | 3:54.8 | QF |
  | 4. | Frans Van den Berghen and Albert Van de Vliet (BEL) | 3:59.2 | |
  | 5. | Thomas Horton and John Eiseman (USA) | 4:02.9 | |
  | 6. | Robert Cordner and George Ward (CAN) | 4:27.5 | |
  
  ## Final
  
  | | Kurt Wires and Yrjö Hietanen (FIN) | 3:51.1 |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Lars Glassér and Ingemar Hedberg (SWE) | 3:51.1 |
  | | Max Raub and Herbert Wiedermann (AUT) | 3:51.4 |
  | 4. | Gustav Schmidt and Helmut Noller (GER) | 3:51.8 |
  | 5. | Ivar Mathisen and Knut Østby (NOR) | 3:54.7 |
  | 6. | Maurice Graffen and Marcel Renaud (FRA) | 3:55.1 |
  | 7. | István Granek and János Kulcsár (HUN) | 3:55.1 |
  | 8. | Cees Koch and Jan Klingers (NED) | 3:55.8 |
  | 9. | Egon Dyg and Andreas Lind (DEN) | 3:59.3 |
  
  The Finnish duo won the gold medal after studying a photo finish of the event.
  
  