Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's uneven bars

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

Women's uneven bars
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueWest Melbourne Stadium
Date3–7 December
Competitors65 from 15 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ágnes Keleti  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union
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Competition format edit

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 edit

The results of the competition:[1]

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
  Ágnes Keleti   Hungary 9.533 9.433 18.966
  Larysa Latynina   Soviet Union 9.233 9.600 18.833
  Sofia Muratova   Soviet Union 9.300 9.500 18.800
4 Eva Bosáková-Věchtová   Czechoslovakia 9.400 9.333 18.733
5 Helena Rakoczy   Poland 9.166 9.533 18.700
6 Olga Tass-Lemhényi   Hungary 9.366 9.266 18.633
6 Aliz Kertész   Hungary 9.333 9.300 18.633
8 Natalia Kot   Poland 9.266 9.333 18.600
9 Polina Astakhova   Soviet Union 9.200 9.366 18.566
10 Elena Leușteanu   Romania 9.466 9.066 18.533
10 Danuta Nowak-Stachow   Poland 9.166 9.366 18.533
12 Margit Korondi   Hungary 9.100 9.400 18.500
13 Andrea Bodó-Molnár   Hungary 9.233 9.166 18.400
14 Anna Marejková   Czechoslovakia 9.100 9.266 18.366
14 Ivanka Dolzheva   Bulgaria 9.100 9.266 18.366
16 Tamara Manina   Soviet Union 9.000 9.333 18.333
17 Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda   Japan 9.033 9.266 18.300
18 Georgeta Hurmuzachi   Romania 9.033 9.233 18.266
18 Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova   Soviet Union 9.033 9.233 18.266
20 Matylda Matoušková-Šínová   Czechoslovakia 9.200 9.000 18.200
20 Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel   Poland 8.966 9.233 18.200
22 Mitsuka Ikeda   Japan 8.966 9.200 18.166
22 Sonia Iovan-Inovan   Romania 9.100 9.066 18.166
24 Lyudmila Yegorova   Soviet Union 8.833 9.300 18.133
24 Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles   Hungary 9.000 9.133 18.133
26 Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă   Romania 8.966 9.133 18.100
27 Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova   Bulgaria 8.866 9.166 18.033
28 Miroslava Brdíčková   Czechoslovakia 8.966 9.033 18.000
29 Elena Mărgărit   Romania 8.833 9.100 17.933
29 Elena Săcălici   Romania 8.900 9.033 17.933
29 Alena Reichová   Czechoslovakia 8.900 9.033 17.933
32 Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska   Poland 8.833 9.066 17.900
33 Miranda Cicognani   Italy 8.900 8.966 17.866
33 Luciana Reali   Italy 8.766 9.100 17.866
35 Tsvetanka Stancheva   Bulgaria 8.733 9.033 17.766
35 Věra Drazdíková   Czechoslovakia 8.733 9.033 17.766
35 Danièle Sicot-Coulon   France 8.766 9.000 17.766
38 Eva Rönström   Sweden 8.700 9.000 17.700
38 Shizuko Sakashita   Japan 8.700 9.000 17.700
38 Elisa Calsi   Italy 8.700 9.000 17.700
41 Suzuko Seki   Japan 8.533 9.133 17.666
42 Kyoko Kubota   Japan 8.666 8.866 17.533
43 Rosella Cicognani   Italy 8.566 8.866 17.433
43 Elena Lagorara   Italy 8.533 8.900 17.433
45 Kazuko Sogabe   Japan 8.433 8.966 17.400
46 Evy Berggren   Sweden 8.533 8.800 17.333
46 Sandra Ruddick   United States 8.800 8.533 17.333
48 Lidia Szczerbińska   Poland 8.433 8.766 17.200
49 Doris Hedberg   Sweden 8.066 9.066 17.133
50 Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling   Sweden 8.333 8.766 17.100
50 Luciana Lagorara   Italy 8.433 8.666 17.100
52 Doris Fuchs   United States 8.500 8.500 17.000
52 Judy Howe   United States 8.500 8.500 17.000
54 Karin Lindberg   Sweden 8.100 8.700 16.800
55 Annette Krier   Luxembourg 8.200 8.400 16.600
56 Jackie Klein   United States 8.233 8.233 16.466
57 Joyce Racek   United States 8.266 8.033 16.300
58 Pat Hirst   Great Britain 8.100 8.166 16.266
59 Muriel Davis-Grossfeld   United States 8.533 7.700 16.233
60 Barbara Cunningham   Australia 7.933 8.233 16.166
61 Ernestine Russell-Carter   Canada 7.966 8.166 16.133
62 Maude Karlén   Sweden 7.966 7.766 15.733
63 Ing Fraser   Australia 8.000 7.633 15.633
64 Wendy Nicholls   Australia 6.866 7.966 14.833
65 Jacqueline Dieudonné   France 8.266 8.266

References edit

  1. ^ Official Report, pp. 492–97.