These are the results of the women's balance beam competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
| Women's balance beam at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Date | 6–8 September | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 124 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 19.283 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Competition format edit
The gymnastics all-around events continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered 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 scores for all 8 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around score.
These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the new apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score; the top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals; others were ranked 7th through 124th. For the apparatus finals, the all-around score for that apparatus was multiplied by one-half then added to the final round exercise score to give a final total.
Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, with the final total apparatus score from 0 to 20.
Results edit
| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Preliminary | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | Voluntary | Total | 1⁄2 Prelim. | Final | Total | |||
 |
Eva Bosáková |  Czechoslovakia |
9.400 | 9.766 | 19.166 | 9.583 | 9.700 | 19.283 |
 |
Larisa Latynina |  Soviet Union |
9.366 | 9.700 | 19.066 | 9.533 | 9.700 | 19.233 |
 |
Sofia Muratova | Soviet Union |
9.466 | 9.666 | 19.132 | 9.566 | 9.666 | 19.232 |
| 4 | Margarita Nikolaeva | Soviet Union |
9.400 | 9.566 | 18.966 | 9.483 | 9.700 | 19.183 |
| 5 | Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda |  Japan |
9.266 | 9.666 | 18.932 | 9.466 | 9.666 | 19.132 |
| 6 | Věra Čáslavská | Czechoslovakia |
9.233 | 9.533 | 18.766 | 9.383 | 9.700 | 19.083 |
| 7 | Ingrid Föst |  United Team of Germany |
9.300 | 9.400 | 18.700 | did not advance | ||
| 8 | Lidiya Ivanova | Soviet Union |
9.233 | 9.466 | 18.699 | did not advance | ||
| 9 | Rayna Grigorova |  Bulgaria |
9.200 | 9.466 | 18.666 | did not advance | ||
| 10 | Ludmila Švédová | Czechoslovakia |
9.200 | 9.433 | 18.633 | did not advance | ||
| 11 | Sonia Iovan |  Romania |
9.200 | 9.400 | 18.600 | did not advance | ||
| 12 | Toshiko Shirasu-Aihara | Japan |
9.266 | 9.200 | 18.466 | did not advance | ||
| Ute Starke | United Team of Germany |
9.066 | 9.400 | 18.466 | did not advance | |||
| 14 | Kazuko Sogabe | Japan |
8.900 | 9.533 | 18.433 | did not advance | ||
| 15 | Adolfína Tkačíková-Tačová | Czechoslovakia |
9.166 | 9.266 | 18.432 | did not advance | ||
| 16 | Judit Füle |  Hungary |
9.000 | 9.200 | 18.400 | did not advance | ||
| 17 | Miranda Cicognani |  Italy |
9.000 | 9.366 | 18.366 | did not advance | ||
| Elena Leușteanu | Romania |
9.066 | 9.300 | 18.366 | did not advance | |||
| Kiyoko Ono | Japan |
9.066 | 9.300 | 18.366 | did not advance | |||
| Katalin Müller-Száll | Hungary |
9.300 | 9.066 | 18.366 | did not advance | |||
| 21 | Natalia Kot |  Poland |
8.900 | 9.433 | 18.333 | did not advance | ||
| Roselore Sonntag | United Team of Germany |
9.133 | 9.200 | 18.333 | did not advance | |||
| Atanasia Ionescu | Romania |
9.133 | 9.200 | 18.333 | did not advance | |||
| Gretel Schiener | United Team of Germany |
9.100 | 9.233 | 18.333 | did not advance | |||
| Gail Sontgerath |  United States |
9.000 | 9.333 | 18.333 | did not advance | |||
| 26 | Eryka Mondry-Kost | Poland |
9.000 | 9.300 | 18.300 | did not advance | ||
| Hana Růžičková | Czechoslovakia |
9.100 | 9.200 | 18.300 | did not advance | |||
| 28 | Polina Astakhova | Soviet Union |
9.500 | 8.733 | 18.233 | did not advance | ||
| Emilia Vătășoiu | Romania |
9.000 | 9.233 | 18.233 | did not advance | |||
| Barbara Eustachiewicz | Poland |
9.000 | 9.233 | 18.233 | did not advance | |||
| Ulla Lindström |  Sweden |
9.033 | 9.200 | 18.233 | did not advance | |||
| 32 | Danuta Nowak-Stachow | Poland |
8.966 | 9.266 | 18.232 | did not advance | ||
| 33 | Matylda Matoušková-Šínová | Czechoslovakia |
9.000 | 9.200 | 18.200 | did not advance | ||
| 34 | Kimiko Tsukada | Japan |
8.833 | 9.366 | 18.199 | did not advance | ||
| 35 | Uta Poreceanu | Romania |
8.933 | 9.233 | 18.166 | did not advance | ||
| 36 | Tereza Kočiš |  Yugoslavia |
8.833 | 9.233 | 18.066 | did not advance | ||
| Stanka Pavlova | Bulgaria |
8.933 | 9.133 | 18.066 | did not advance | |||
| Anne-Marie Demortière |  France |
9.166 | 8.900 | 18.066 | did not advance | |||
| 39 | Klára Förstner | Hungary |
9.000 | 9.000 | 18.000 | did not advance | ||
| 40 | Ewa Rydell | Sweden |
8.966 | 9.033 | 17.999 | did not advance | ||
| Wanda Soprani | Italy |
9.066 | 8.933 | 17.999 | did not advance | |||
| Mirjana Bilić | Yugoslavia |
8.933 | 9.066 | 17.999 | did not advance | |||
| 43 | Jacqueline Dieudonné | France |
9.133 | 8.833 | 17.966 | did not advance | ||
| 44 | Elisaveta Mileva | Bulgaria |
8.966 | 8.966 | 17.932 | did not advance | ||
| 45 | Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova | Bulgaria |
8.900 | 8.966 | 17.866 | did not advance | ||
| Monica Elfvin | Sweden |
8.866 | 9.000 | 17.866 | did not advance | |||
| 47 | Mária Bencsik | Hungary |
9.066 | 8.766 | 17.832 | did not advance | ||
| 48 | Gerola Lindahl | Sweden |
8.933 | 8.850 | 17.783 | did not advance | ||
| 49 | Betty-Jean Maycock | United States |
8.600 | 9.166 | 17.766 | did not advance | ||
| 50 | Teri Montefusco | United States |
8.533 | 9.166 | 17.699 | did not advance | ||
| 51 | Ivanka Dolzheva | Bulgaria |
8.633 | 9.033 | 17.666 | did not advance | ||
| 52 | Solveig Egman-Andersson | Sweden |
8.900 | 8.700 | 17.600 | did not advance | ||
| 53 | Sharon Richardson | United States |
8.366 | 9.233 | 17.599 | did not advance | ||
| 54 | Lena Adler | Sweden |
8.666 | 8.900 | 17.566 | did not advance | ||
| 55 | Doris Fuchs | United States |
9.066 | 8.400 | 17.466 | did not advance | ||
| Elfriede Hirnschall |  Austria |
8.666 | 8.800 | 17.466 | did not advance | |||
| 57 | Anikó Ducza | Hungary |
8.166 | 9.233 | 17.399 | did not advance | ||
| Renate Schneider | United Team of Germany |
9.133 | 8.266 | 17.399 | did not advance | |||
| 59 | Francesca Costa | Italy |
8.700 | 8.600 | 17.300 | did not advance | ||
| 60 | Rosella Cicognani | Italy |
9.066 | 8.233 | 17.299 | did not advance | ||
| 61 | Pirkko Nieminen |  Finland |
8.266 | 9.000 | 17.266 | did not advance | ||
| Brygida Dziuba | Poland |
9.066 | 8.200 | 17.266 | did not advance | |||
| 63 | Paulette le Raer | France |
8.600 | 8.600 | 17.200 | did not advance | ||
| 64 | Ginko Abukawa-Chiba | Japan |
9.000 | 8.166 | 17.166 | did not advance | ||
| Monique Rossi | France |
8.700 | 8.466 | 17.166 | did not advance | |||
| 66 | Muriel Grossfeld | United States |
8.900 | 8.200 | 17.100 | did not advance | ||
| 67 | Eira Lehtonen | Finland |
8.033 | 9.066 | 17.099 | did not advance | ||
| 68 | Danièle Sicot-Coulon | France |
9.000 | 8.033 | 17.033 | did not advance | ||
| Ernestine Russell |  Canada |
8.833 | 8.200 | 17.033 | did not advance | |||
| Nel Fritz |  Netherlands |
8.033 | 9.000 | 17.033 | did not advance | |||
| Ria Meyburg | Netherlands |
8.100 | 8.933 | 17.033 | did not advance | |||
| 72 | Tsvetanka Rangelova | Bulgaria |
9.066 | 7.966 | 17.032 | did not advance | ||
| Gabriella Santarelli | Italy |
8.966 | 8.066 | 17.032 | did not advance | |||
| 74 | Olga Tass | Hungary |
9.033 | 7.966 | 16.999 | did not advance | ||
| 75 | Gizela Niedurny | Poland |
9.000 | 7.983 | 16.983 | did not advance | ||
| 76 | Lineke Majolee | Netherlands |
8.000 | 8.866 | 16.966 | did not advance | ||
| 77 | Karin Boldemann | United Team of Germany |
9.000 | 7.933 | 16.933 | did not advance | ||
| 78 | Bep Ipenburg | Netherlands |
8.133 | 8.766 | 16.899 | did not advance | ||
| 79 | Waltraud Benesch | Austria |
8.200 | 8.666 | 16.866 | did not advance | ||
| 80 | Nel Wambach | Netherlands |
7.900 | 8.900 | 16.800 | did not advance | ||
| 81 | Tuovi Sappinen | Finland |
7.800 | 8.900 | 16.700 | did not advance | ||
| 82 | Antoinette Kuiters |  South Africa |
8.100 | 8.533 | 16.633 | did not advance | ||
| 83 | Elena Lagorara | Italy |
8.700 | 7.900 | 16.600 | did not advance | ||
| 84 | Miriam Kara |  Israel |
7.800 | 8.700 | 16.500 | did not advance | ||
| 85 | Ritva Salonen | Finland |
7.566 | 8.800 | 16.366 | did not advance | ||
| 86 | Ralli Ben-Yehuda | Israel |
7.600 | 8.666 | 16.266 | did not advance | ||
| 87 | Godelieve Brys |  Belgium |
7.933 | 8.300 | 16.233 | did not advance | ||
| 88 | Kaarina Autio | Finland |
7.400 | 8.800 | 16.200 | did not advance | ||
| 89 | Erika Bogovic | Austria |
7.600 | 8.433 | 16.033 | did not advance | ||
| 90 | Liliane Becker |  Luxembourg |
7.533 | 8.400 | 15.933 | did not advance | ||
| 91 | Elena Mărgărit | Romania |
6.800 | 9.066 | 15.866 | did not advance | ||
| Raili Tuominen-Hämäläinen | Finland |
8.000 | 7.866 | 15.866 | did not advance | |||
| 93 | Rita Van De Velde | Belgium |
7.733 | 8.033 | 15.766 | did not advance | ||
| 94 | Nevenka Pogačnik | Yugoslavia |
8.233 | 7.500 | 15.733 | did not advance | ||
| 95 | Veronica Grymonprez | Belgium |
8.033 | 7.666 | 15.699 | did not advance | ||
| 96 | Renée Hugon | France |
7.833 | 7.633 | 15.466 | did not advance | ||
| 97 | Henriette Parzer | Austria |
8.333 | 7.066 | 15.399 | did not advance | ||
| 98 | Elena Artamendi |  Spain |
7.600 | 7.766 | 15.366 | did not advance | ||
| 99 | Val Roberts |  Australia |
7.066 | 8.233 | 15.299 | did not advance | ||
| 100 | Rosa Balaguer | Spain |
7.400 | 7.866 | 15.266 | did not advance | ||
| 101 | Gwynedd Lewis-Lingard |  Great Britain |
7.366 | 7.833 | 15.199 | did not advance | ||
| 102 | Yu Myeong-ja |  South Korea |
7.333 | 7.833 | 15.166 | did not advance | ||
| Kaye Breadsell | Australia |
7.800 | 7.366 | 15.166 | did not advance | |||
| 104 | Margaret Thomas-Neale | Great Britain |
7.433 | 7.633 | 15.066 | did not advance | ||
| 105 | Jill Pollard | Great Britain |
7.366 | 7.500 | 14.866 | did not advance | ||
| 106 | Pat Perks | Great Britain |
7.433 | 7.400 | 14.833 | did not advance | ||
| 107 | Montserrat Artamendi | Spain |
7.400 | 7.266 | 14.666 | did not advance | ||
| 108 | Ruth Abeles | Israel |
6.900 | 7.700 | 14.600 | did not advance | ||
| Dorothy Summers | Great Britain |
7.500 | 7.100 | 14.600 | did not advance | |||
| 110 | Dália da Cunha-Sammer |  Portugal |
6.400 | 8.166 | 14.566 | did not advance | ||
| 111 | Yvonne Stoffel-Wagener | Luxembourg |
6.533 | 8.000 | 14.533 | did not advance | ||
| 112 | Anni Cermak | Austria |
7.933 | 6.583 | 14.516 | did not advance | ||
| 113 | Marjorie Carter | Great Britain |
7.166 | 7.266 | 14.432 | did not advance | ||
| Maria Helena Cunha | Portugal |
6.966 | 7.466 | 14.432 | did not advance | |||
| 115 | María Luisa Fernández | Spain |
7.766 | 6.333 | 14.099 | did not advance | ||
| 116 | Renata Müller | Spain |
6.433 | 7.533 | 13.966 | did not advance | ||
| 117 | Esbela da Fonseca | Portugal |
6.933 | 6.833 | 13.766 | did not advance | ||
| 118 | María del Carmen González | Spain |
7.333 | 6.200 | 13.533 | did not advance | ||
| 119 | Louise Parker | Canada |
6.733 | 6.066 | 12.799 | did not advance | ||
| 120 | Yolanda Williams |  Cuba |
4.000 | 7.333 | 11.333 | did not advance | ||
| 121 | Julia Uria | Cuba |
3.833 | 5.966 | 9.799 | did not advance | ||
| 122 | Tamara Zamotaylova | Soviet Union |
9.533 | – | 9.533 | did not advance | ||
| 123 | Hildegard Reitter | Austria |
7.800 | – | 7.800 | did not advance | ||
| 124 | Ria van Velsen | Netherlands |
7.666 | – | 7.666 | did not advance | ||