Date | 3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-14:00 | |
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Status | Olympic | |
Location | West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria | |
Participants | 65 from 15 countries | |
Format | Compulsory and optional exercise performed on all four apparatuses. |
Larysa Latynina had competed on the Soviet team at the 1954 World Championships, but was not a star and won no individual medals. By the time of the Melbourne Olympics, she had improved and won the gold medal in all-around comfortably over Hungarian Ágnes Keleti, with Latynina’s teammate, Sofiya Muratova taking bronze. Latynina would win six medals in Melbourne, including four golds, missing out only on the balance beam where she finished fourth. While a career for most gymnasts, Latynina would return and win six medals again in 1960 at Rome and 1964 at Tokyo, ending her career with 18 Olympic medals, an absolute Olympic record that lasted until Michael Phelps surpassed her at London in 2012, where he finished with 22 medals.
Muratova was the wife of Valentin Muratov, who also starred in Melbourne on the Soviet men’s team. She would competed again in Rome and end her Olympic career with eight medals and two golds. Keleti’s career had a different ending. She had competed at the 1952 Olympics, but after the Hungarian November Revolution of 1956, she defected while in Melbourne, and eventually settled in Israel, where she coached the national women’s team.
Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CEP | OEP | |||
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1 | Larisa Latynina | ![]() | 74.933 | 37.233 | 37.700 | Gold | 1 | |
2 | Ágnes Keleti | ![]() | 74.633 | 37.066 | 37.566 | Silver | 2 | |
3 | Sofya Muratova | ![]() | 74.466 | 37.266 | 37.200 | Bronze | 3 | |
=4 | Elena Leuştean | ![]() | 74.366 | 37.300 | 37.066 | 4 | ||
=4 | Olga Tass-Lemhényi | ![]() | 74.366 | 37.033 | 37.333 | 5 | ||
6 | Tamara Manina | ![]() | 74.233 | 36.900 | 37.333 | 6 | ||
7 | Eva Bosáková-Věchtová | ![]() | 74.100 | 36.933 | 37.166 | 7 | ||
8 | Helena Rakoczy | ![]() | 73.700 | 36.566 | 37.133 | 8 | ||
9 | Natalia Kot | ![]() | 73.633 | 36.833 | 36.800 | 9 | ||
10 | Lyudmila Yegorova | ![]() | 73.533 | 36.133 | 37.400 | 10 | ||
11 | Anna Marejková | ![]() | 73.500 | 36.733 | 36.766 | 11 | ||
12 | Margit Korondi | ![]() | 73.333 | 36.300 | 37.033 | 12 | ||
13 | Keiko Tanaka | ![]() | 73.100 | 36.733 | 36.366 | 13 | ||
=14 | Andrea Bodó-Molnár | ![]() | 72.900 | 36.533 | 36.366 | 14 | ||
=14 | Sonia Inovan | ![]() | 72.900 | 36.433 | 36.466 | 15 | ||
16 | Georgeta Hurmuzachi | ![]() | 72.733 | 36.200 | 36.533 | 16 | ||
17 | Polina Astakhova | ![]() | 72.700 | 36.166 | 36.533 | 17 | ||
18 | Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles | ![]() | 72.200 | 35.900 | 36.300 | 18 | ||
19 | Ivanka Dolzheva | ![]() | 72.133 | 35.600 | 36.533 | 19 | ||
20 | Emilia Vătăşoiu | ![]() | 72.100 | 35.800 | 36.300 | 20 | ||
=21 | Lidiya Kalinina | ![]() | 72.033 | 36.400 | 35.633 | 21 | ||
=21 | Elena Mărgărit | ![]() | 72.033 | 35.766 | 36.266 | 22 | ||
23 | Mitsuka Ikeda | ![]() | 71.900 | 36.233 | 35.666 | 23 | ||
24 | Kazuko Sogabe | ![]() | 71.833 | 35.600 | 36.233 | 24 | ||
=25 | Matylda Šínová | ![]() | 71.800 | 35.800 | 36.000 | 25 | ||
=25 | Danuta Nowak-Stachow | ![]() | 71.800 | 35.466 | 36.333 | 26 | ||
27 | Dorota Jokiel | ![]() | 71.666 | 35.266 | 36.400 | 27 | ||
28 | Miranda Cicognani | ![]() | 71.600 | 36.166 | 35.433 | 28 | ||
29 | Shizuko Sakashita | ![]() | 71.500 | 35.500 | 36.000 | 29 | ||
30 | Elena Săcălici | ![]() | 71.433 | 35.800 | 35.633 | 30 | ||
31 | Ann-Sofi Colling | ![]() | 71.400 | 35.433 | 35.966 | 31 | ||
32 | Věra Drazdíková | ![]() | 71.333 | 35.533 | 35.800 | 32 | ||
33 | Tsvetanka Stancheva | ![]() | 71.266 | 35.100 | 36.166 | 33 | ||
34 | Kyoko Kubota | ![]() | 71.133 | 35.266 | 35.866 | 34 | ||
35 | Suzuko Seki | ![]() | 71.000 | 35.600 | 35.400 | 35 | ||
36 | Saltirka Tarpova | ![]() | 70.966 | 35.466 | 35.500 | 36 | ||
=37 | Luciana Reali | ![]() | 70.933 | 34.966 | 35.966 | 37 | ||
=37 | Eva Rönström | ![]() | 70.933 | 34.900 | 36.033 | 38 | ||
39 | Alena Reichová | ![]() | 70.866 | 35.433 | 35.433 | 39 | ||
40 | Miroslava Brdíčková | ![]() | 70.833 | 35.400 | 35.433 | 40 | ||
41 | Danièle Sicot | ![]() | 70.800 | 34.766 | 36.033 | 41 | ||
42 | Rosella Cicognani | ![]() | 70.766 | 34.533 | 36.233 | 42 | ||
43 | Elisa Calsi | ![]() | 70.733 | 35.200 | 35.533 | 43 | ||
44 | Elena Lagorara | ![]() | 70.700 | 34.733 | 35.966 | 44 | ||
45 | Barbara Ślizowska | ![]() | 70.533 | 35.300 | 35.233 | 45 | ||
46 | Doris Hedberg | ![]() | 70.466 | 35.000 | 35.466 | 46 | ||
47 | Lidia Szczerbińska | ![]() | 70.300 | 35.166 | 35.133 | 47 | ||
48 | Karin Lindberg | ![]() | 70.033 | 34.266 | 35.766 | 48 | ||
49 | Evy Berggren | ![]() | 69.966 | 34.600 | 35.366 | 49 | ||
50 | Luciana Lagorara | ![]() | 69.700 | 34.500 | 35.200 | 50 | ||
51 | Sandra Ruddick | ![]() | 69.133 | 35.166 | 33.966 | 51 | ||
52 | Muriel Davis | ![]() | 68.933 | 34.900 | 34.033 | 52 | ||
53 | Maude Karlén | ![]() | 68.800 | 33.966 | 34.833 | 53 | ||
54 | Joyce Racek | ![]() | 68.500 | 34.533 | 33.966 | 54 | ||
55 | Jackie Klein | ![]() | 68.300 | 34.133 | 34.166 | 55 | ||
56 | Ernestine Russell | ![]() | 67.933 | 34.633 | 33.300 | 56 | ||
57 | Doris Fuchs | ![]() | 67.733 | 34.733 | 33.000 | 57 | ||
58 | Judy Howe | ![]() | 67.200 | 34.300 | 32.900 | 58 | ||
59 | Annette Krier | ![]() | 66.266 | 32.633 | 33.633 | 59 | ||
60 | Pat Hirst | ![]() | 65.833 | 33.366 | 32.466 | 60 | ||
61 | Aliz Kertész | ![]() | 63.400 | 36.466 | 26.933 | 61 | ||
62 | Ing Fraser | ![]() | 62.433 | 32.700 | 29.733 | 62 | ||
63 | Barbara Cunningham | ![]() | 61.700 | 31.966 | 29.733 | 63 | ||
64 | Wendy Nicholls | ![]() | 60.533 | 28.900 | 31.633 | 64 | ||
65 | Jacqueline Dieudonné | ![]() | 8.266 | 8.266 | 0.000 | 65 |