The men's C-2 1000 metres was a competition in canoeing at the 1956 Summer Olympics. The C-2 event is raced by two-man sprint canoes. Because there were ten teams in this event, heats were introduced. Both the heats and final took place on December 1.
The ten teams first raced in two heats. The top four teams in each heat advanced directly to the final.
| Heat 1 | |||||
| width=30 | 1. | width=60 | 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 |
| width=30 bgcolor=gold | width=60 | 4:47.4 | ||
| bgcolor=silver | 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 originally finished seventh in the final, but were disqualified for reasons not disclosed in the official report.