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Horse Vault, Women

Date	3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-14:00
Status	Olympic
Location	West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Participants	64 from 15 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Gold on this apparatus went to Soviet Larysa Latynina, who also won gold in Melbourne in the all-around, the team event, and the floor exercise. She would return in 1960 and add a bronze on vault, and 1964, adding a silver. Second in 1956 went to Latynina’s teammate Tamara Manina, while bronze was shared by Hungary’s Olga Tass-Lemhényi and Sweden’s Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling. The 1954 World Championship title on vault was shared by Manina and Pettersson-Colling. This was the only apparatus gold medal that was not won in 1956 by Hungary’s Ágnes Keleti.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Points	Compulsory Exercise Points	Optional Exercise Points
1	Larisa Latynina	URS	18.833	9.433	9.400	Gold	1
2	Tamara Manina	URS	18.800	9.466	9.333	Silver	2
=3	Ann-Sofi Colling	SWE	18.733	9.433	9.300	Bronze	3
=3	Olga Tass-Lemhényi	HUN	18.733	9.166	9.566	Bronze	4
5	Sofya Muratova	URS	18.666	9.500	9.166		5
6	Elena Leuştean	ROU	18.633	9.266	9.366		6
=7	Natalia Kot	POL	18.500	9.333	9.166		7
=7	Helena Rakoczy	POL	18.500	9.233	9.266		8
9	Lyudmila Yegorova	URS	18.466	9.200	9.266		9
=10	Doris Hedberg	SWE	18.433	9.200	9.233		10
=10	Miranda Cicognani	ITA	18.433	9.066	9.366		11
12	Elena Lagorara	ITA	18.300	8.933	9.366		12
=13	Sonia Inovan	ROU	18.266	9.100	9.166		13
=13	Andrea Bodó-Molnár	HUN	18.266	9.066	9.200		14
=13	Georgeta Hurmuzachi	ROU	18.266	8.966	9.300		15
=16	Dorota Jokiel	POL	18.233	9.133	9.100		16
=16	Anna Marejková	TCH	18.233	9.133	9.100		17
=16	Keiko Tanaka	JPN	18.233	9.133	9.100		18
=16	Margit Korondi	HUN	18.233	8.900	9.333		19
=20	Matylda Šínová	TCH	18.200	9.033	9.166		20
=20	Luciana Reali	ITA	18.200	9.000	9.200		21
22	Eva Bosáková-Věchtová	TCH	18.166	9.000	9.166		22
=23	Kazuko Sogabe	JPN	18.133	9.066	9.066		23
=23	Elena Mărgărit	ROU	18.133	8.933	9.200		24
=23	Karin Lindberg	SWE	18.133	8.866	9.266		25
=23	Ágnes Keleti	HUN	18.133	8.833	9.300		26
=27	Eva Rönström	SWE	18.100	8.900	9.200		27
=27	Ivanka Dolzheva	BUL	18.100	8.900	9.200		28
=27	Elena Săcălici	ROU	18.100	8.866	9.233		29
=30	Mitsuka Ikeda	JPN	18.066	9.133	8.933		30
=30	Emilia Vătăşoiu	ROU	18.066	8.900	9.166		31
=32	Maude Karlén	SWE	18.033	8.966	9.066		32
=32	Joyce Racek	USA	18.033	8.900	9.133		33
=32	Rosella Cicognani	ITA	18.033	8.733	9.300		34
=35	Alena Reichová	TCH	18.000	9.000	9.000		35
=35	Doris Fuchs	USA	18.000	8.966	9.033		36
=35	Saltirka Tarpova	BUL	18.000	8.900	9.100		37
38	Evy Berggren	SWE	17.966	9.100	8.866		38
39	Luciana Lagorara	ITA	17.933	8.800	9.133		39
=40	Pat Hirst	GBR	17.900	8.966	8.933		40
=40	Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles	HUN	17.900	8.866	9.033		41
=42	Věra Drazdíková	TCH	17.866	9.000	8.866		42
=42	Suzuko Seki	JPN	17.866	9.000	8.866		43
=42	Danuta Nowak-Stachow	POL	17.866	8.966	8.900		44
45	Ernestine Russell	CAN	17.833	9.000	8.833		45
=46	Sandra Ruddick	USA	17.800	8.933	8.866		46
=46	Tsvetanka Stancheva	BUL	17.800	8.933	8.866		47
=48	Lidia Szczerbińska	POL	17.733	9.033	8.700		48
=48	Miroslava Brdíčková	TCH	17.733	8.866	8.866		49
=50	Barbara Ślizowska	POL	17.566	8.833	8.733		50
=50	Polina Astakhova	URS	17.566	8.733	8.833		51
=50	Kyoko Kubota	JPN	17.566	8.733	8.833		52
53	Elisa Calsi	ITA	17.533	8.700	8.833		53
54	Shizuko Sakashita	JPN	17.500	8.800	8.700		54
55	Danièle Sicot	FRA	17.400	8.400	9.000		55
56	Lidiya Kalinina	URS	17.333	9.200	8.133		56
57	Jackie Klein	USA	17.300	8.633	8.666		57
58	Muriel Davis	USA	16.966	8.633	8.333		58
59	Judy Howe	USA	16.266	8.600	7.666		59
60	Annette Krier	LUX	15.833	8.033	7.800		60
61	Barbara Cunningham	AUS	15.400	7.800	7.600		61
62	Ing Fraser	AUS	14.366	7.733	6.633		62
63	Wendy Nicholls	AUS	13.633	5.933	7.700		63
64	Alíz Kertész	HUN	8.766	8.766	0.000		64