Date | 3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-14:00 | |
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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(s) | NOC | Points | CEP | OEP | |||
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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 | Aliz Kertész | HUN | 8.766 | 8.766 | 0.000 | 64 |