Canoeing at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's K-1 500 metres

These are the results of the women's K-1 500 metres competition in canoeing at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The K-1 event is raced by single-person canoe sprint kayaks. Heat and semifinals took place on August 12.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Karen Hoff (DEN)	Alida van der Anker-Doedens (NED)	Fritzi Schwingl (AUT)

Heats

The ten competitors first raced in two heats. The top four finishers in both heats moved directly to the final.

Heat 1
1.	Růžena Košťálová (TCH)	2:39.6	QF
2.	Sylvi Saimo (FIN)	2:41.7	QF
3.	Anna Van Marcke (BEL)	2:44.7	QF
4.	Claire Vautrin (FRA)	2:45.2	QF
5.	Joyce Richards (GBR)	3:00.1
Heat 2
1.	Karen Hoff (DEN)	2:32.2	QF
2.	Alida van der Anker-Doedens (NED)	2:35.4	QF
3.	Fritzi Schwingl (AUT)	2:35.7	QF
4.	Klára Fried-Bánfalvi (HUN)	2:37.5	QF
5.	Ingrid Wallgren (SWE)	2:38.5

Final

	Karen Hoff (DEN)	2:31.9
	Alida van der Anker-Doedens (NED)	2:32.8
	Fritzi Schwingl (AUT)	2:32.9
4.	Klára Fried-Bánfalvi (HUN)	2:33.8
5.	Růžena Košťálová (TCH)	2:38.2
6.	Sylvi Saimo (FIN)	2:38.4
7.	Anna Van Marcke (BEL)	2:43.4
8.	Claire Vautrin (FRA)	2:44.4

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics official report. p. 316.
• Sports-reference.com women's 1948 K-1 500 m results.