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Women's balance beam
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueWest Melbourne Stadium
Date3–7 December 1956
Competitors64 from 15 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ágnes Keleti  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eva Bosáková  Czechoslovakia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tamara Manina  Soviet Union
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Gymnastics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
List of gymnasts
Artistic
Team all-aroundmenwomen
Team Portable
Apparatus		women
Individual all-aroundmenwomen
Vaultmenwomen
Floormenwomen
Pommel horsemen
Ringsmen
Parallel barsmen
Horizontal barmen
Uneven barswomen
Balance beamwomen

These are the results of the women's balance beam competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

Competition format

The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered either a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The 2 exercise scores were summed to give an apparatus total. No separate finals were contested.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.

Results

The results of the competition:

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ágnes Keleti  Hungary 9.433 9.366 18.800
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eva Bosáková-Věchtová  Czechoslovakia 9.300 9.333 18.633
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tamara Manina  Soviet Union 9.233 9.400 18.633
4 Larysa Latynina  Soviet Union 9.300 9.233 18.533
4 Anna Marejková  Czechoslovakia 9.300 9.233 18.533
6 Elena Leușteanu  Romania 9.300 9.200 18.500
7 Olga Tass-Lemhényi  Hungary 9.233 9.233 18.466
7 Margit Korondi  Hungary 9.266 9.200 18.466
7 Lyudmila Yegorova  Soviet Union 9.100 9.366 18.466
10 Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union 9.166 9.266 18.433
11 Sonia Iovan-Inovan  Romania 9.100 9.166 18.266
12 Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă  Romania 9.100 9.133 18.233
13 Natalia Kot  Poland 9.100 9.066 18.166
13 Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union 9.066 9.100 18.166
13 Kazuko Sogabe  Japan 9.066 9.100 18.166
16 Helena Rakoczy  Poland 9.033 9.100 18.133
16 Andrea Bodó-Molnár  Hungary 9.066 9.066 18.133
16 Shizuko Sakashita  Japan 8.966 9.166 18.133
19 Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles  Hungary 9.066 9.033 18.100
20 Kyoko Kubota  Japan 8.966 9.100 18.066
21 Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda  Japan 9.266 8.733 18.000
21 Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova  Soviet Union 8.900 9.100 18.000
23 Aliz Kertész  Hungary 9.300 8.666 17.966
24 Elisa Calsi  Italy 9.000 8.933 17.933
25 Danièle Sicot-Coulon  France 8.900 9.000 17.900
26 Ivanka Dolzheva  Bulgaria 8.800 9.066 17.866
26 Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel  Poland 8.833 9.033 17.866
28 Věra Drazdíková  Czechoslovakia 8.766 9.033 17.800
29 Georgeta Hurmuzachi  Romania 8.933 8.833 17.766
30 Elena Mărgărit  Romania 8.833 8.800 17.633
30 Lidia Szczerbińska  Poland 8.866 8.766 17.633
32 Muriel Davis-Grossfeld  United States 8.633 8.966 17.600
33 Danuta Nowak-Stachow  Poland 8.633 8.933 17.566
33 Miroslava Brdíčková  Czechoslovakia 8.800 8.766 17.566
33 Tsvetanka Stancheva  Bulgaria 8.366 9.200 17.566
36 Alena Reichová  Czechoslovakia 8.600 8.900 17.500
36 Suzuko Seki  Japan 9.100 8.400 17.500
38 Matylda Matoušková-Šínová  Czechoslovakia 8.566 8.900 17.466
39 Mitsuka Ikeda  Japan 9.033 8.400 17.433
39 Rosella Cicognani  Italy 8.566 8.866 17.433
41 Luciana Reali  Italy 8.700 8.700 17.400
41 Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling  Sweden 8.600 8.800 17.400
43 Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska  Poland 8.700 8.633 17.333
44 Elena Săcălici  Romania 8.966 8.333 17.300
44 Elena Lagorara  Italy 8.633 8.666 17.300
46 Karin Lindberg  Sweden 8.266 8.966 17.233
47 Miranda Cicognani  Italy 9.033 8.100 17.133
47 Luciana Lagorara  Italy 8.566 8.566 17.133
49 Jackie Klein  United States 8.366 8.733 17.100
50 Eva Rönström  Sweden 8.166 8.733 16.900
50 Maude Karlén  Sweden 8.033 8.866 16.900
52 Evy Berggren  Sweden 8.000 8.866 16.866
52 Judy Howe  United States 8.466 8.400 16.866
54 Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova  Bulgaria 8.700 8.133 16.833
55 Sandra Ruddick  United States 8.333 8.133 16.466
56 Doris Hedberg  Sweden 8.466 7.933 16.400
57 Wendy Nicholls  Australia 8.333 8.033 16.366
58 Joyce Racek  United States 8.600 7.733 16.333
59 Annette Krier  Luxembourg 7.433 8.533 15.966
60 Pat Hirst  Great Britain 7.733 8.166 15.900
61 Ernestine Russell-Carter  Canada 8.666 7.000 15.766
62 Ing Fraser  Australia 8.200 7.533 15.733
63 Doris Fuchs  United States 8.300 6.633 14.933
64 Barbara Cunningham  Australia 7.966 6.233 14.200

References

  1. Official Report, pp. 492–97.
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