Women's K1 500 m - Canoe & Kayak | _pictogram.svg) | ||||
 Women's K1 500 m 1956
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| Final | |||||||||
 | Yelizaveta Dementyeva |  | URS | 2.18,9 | |||||
 | Therese Zenz |  | GER | 2.19,6 | |||||
 | Tove Søby |  | DEN | 2.22,3 | |||||
| 4. | Cecilia Berkes |  | 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 | |||||
| Round 1 | |||||||||
| 1. | Therese Zenz | | GER | 2.17,6 | Q | ||||
| 2. | Yelizaveta Dementyeva | | URS | 2.18,9 | Q | ||||
| 3. | Edith Cochrane | | AUS | 2.24,0 | Q | ||||
| 4. | Patricia Moody | | GBR | 2.26,7 | Q | ||||
| 5. | Helga Hellebrand |  | AUT | 2.27,5 | |||||
| Round 1 | |||||||||
| 1. | Tove Søby | | DEN | 2.23,7 | Q | ||||
| 2. | Cecilia Berkes | | HUN | 2.25,3 | Q | ||||
| 3. | Daniela Walkowiak | | POL | 2.25,8 | Q | ||||
| 4. | Eva Marion | | FRA | 2.29,4 | Q | ||||
| 5. | Eila Eskola |  | FIN | 2.31,4 | |||||
| These results for Women's K1 500 m - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - are based on the official Olympic reports and the Olympian Database |
