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Uneven Bars, Women

Date	3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-14:00
Status	Olympic
Location	West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Participants	65 from 15 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Hungary’s Ágnes Keleti won gold on the uneven bars, one of her three apparatus gold medals in Melbourne, missing out only on the vault. She had also competed at the 1952 Olympics, but her Olympic career ended when she defected to Australia after the Melbourne Games, eventually settling in Israel. Soviets Larysa Latynina and Sofiya Muratova won the silver and bronze medals, respectively. They would both compete again in Rome, Latynina repeating as silver medalist, while Muratova would place fourth.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Points	Compulsory Exercise Points	Optional Exercise Points
1	Ágnes Keleti	HUN	18.966	9.533	9.433	Gold	1
2	Larisa Latynina	URS	18.833	9.233	9.600	Silver	2
3	Sofya Muratova	URS	18.800	9.300	9.500	Bronze	3
4	Eva Bosáková-Věchtová	TCH	18.733	9.400	9.333		4
5	Helena Rakoczy	POL	18.700	9.166	9.533		5
=6	Olga Tass-Lemhényi	HUN	18.633	9.366	9.266		6
=6	Alíz Kertész	HUN	18.633	9.333	9.300		7
8	Natalia Kot	POL	18.600	9.266	9.333		8
9	Polina Astakhova	URS	18.566	9.200	9.366		9
=10	Elena Leuştean	ROU	18.533	9.466	9.066		10
=10	Danuta Nowak-Stachow	POL	18.533	9.166	9.366		11
12	Margit Korondi	HUN	18.500	9.100	9.400		12
13	Andrea Bodó-Molnár	HUN	18.400	9.233	9.166		13
=14	Anna Marejková	TCH	18.366	9.100	9.266		14
=14	Ivanka Dolzheva	BUL	18.366	9.100	9.266		15
16	Tamara Manina	URS	18.333	9.000	9.333		16
17	Keiko Tanaka	JPN	18.300	9.033	9.266		17
=18	Lidiya Kalinina	URS	18.266	9.033	9.233		18
=18	Georgeta Hurmuzachi	ROU	18.266	9.033	9.233		19
=20	Matylda Šínová	TCH	18.200	9.200	9.000		20
=20	Dorota Jokiel	POL	18.200	8.966	9.233		21
=22	Sonia Inovan	ROU	18.166	9.100	9.066		22
=22	Mitsuka Ikeda	JPN	18.166	8.966	9.200		23
=24	Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles	HUN	18.133	9.000	9.133		24
=24	Lyudmila Yegorova	URS	18.133	8.833	9.300		25
26	Emilia Vătăşoiu	ROU	18.100	8.966	9.133		26
27	Saltirka Tarpova	BUL	18.033	8.866	9.166		27
28	Miroslava Brdíčková	TCH	18.000	8.966	9.033		28
=29	Elena Săcălici	ROU	17.933	8.900	9.033		29
=29	Alena Reichová	TCH	17.933	8.900	9.033		30
=29	Elena Mărgărit	ROU	17.933	8.833	9.100		31
32	Barbara Ślizowska	POL	17.900	8.833	9.066		32
=33	Miranda Cicognani	ITA	17.866	8.900	8.966		33
=33	Luciana Reali	ITA	17.866	8.766	9.100		34
=35	Danièle Sicot	FRA	17.766	8.766	9.000		35
=35	Věra Drazdíková	TCH	17.766	8.733	9.033		36
=35	Tsvetanka Stancheva	BUL	17.766	8.733	9.033		37
=38	Shizuko Sakashita	JPN	17.700	8.700	9.000		38
=38	Elisa Calsi	ITA	17.700	8.700	9.000		39
=38	Eva Rönström	SWE	17.700	8.700	9.000		40
41	Suzuko Seki	JPN	17.666	8.533	9.133		41
42	Kyoko Kubota	JPN	17.533	8.666	8.866		42
=43	Rosella Cicognani	ITA	17.433	8.566	8.866		43
=43	Elena Lagorara	ITA	17.433	8.533	8.900		44
45	Kazuko Sogabe	JPN	17.400	8.433	8.966		45
=46	Sandra Ruddick	USA	17.333	8.800	8.533		46
=46	Evy Berggren	SWE	17.333	8.533	8.800		47
48	Lidia Szczerbińska	POL	17.200	8.433	8.766		48
49	Doris Hedberg	SWE	17.133	8.066	9.066		49
=50	Luciana Lagorara	ITA	17.100	8.433	8.666		50
=50	Ann-Sofi Colling	SWE	17.100	8.333	8.766		51
=52	Doris Fuchs	USA	17.000	8.500	8.500		52
=52	Judy Howe	USA	17.000	8.500	8.500		53
54	Karin Lindberg	SWE	16.800	8.100	8.700		54
55	Annette Krier	LUX	16.600	8.200	8.400		55
56	Jackie Klein	USA	16.466	8.233	8.233		56
57	Joyce Racek	USA	16.300	8.266	8.033		57
58	Pat Hirst	GBR	16.266	8.100	8.166		58
59	Muriel Davis	USA	16.233	8.533	7.700		59
60	Barbara Cunningham	AUS	16.166	7.933	8.233		60
61	Ernestine Russell	CAN	16.133	7.966	8.166		61
62	Maude Karlén	SWE	15.733	7.966	7.766		62
63	Ing Fraser	AUS	15.633	8.000	7.633		63
64	Wendy Nicholls	AUS	14.833	6.866	7.966		64
65	Jacqueline Dieudonné	FRA	8.266	8.266	0.000		65