Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's vault

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

Women's vault
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueWest Melbourne Stadium
Date3–7 December
Competitors64 from 15 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tamara Manina  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Olga Tass  Hungary
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ann-Sofi Colling  Sweden
← 1952
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Competition format

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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

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The results of the competition:[1]

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
  Larysa Latynina   Soviet Union 9.433 9.400 18.833
  Tamara Manina   Soviet Union 9.466 9.333 18.800
  Olga Tass-Lemhényi   Hungary 9.166 9.566 18.733
  Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling   Sweden 9.433 9.300 18.733
5 Sofia Muratova   Soviet Union 9.500 9.166 18.666
6 Elena Leușteanu   Romania 9.266 9.366 18.633
7 Helena Rakoczy   Poland 9.233 9.266 18.500
7 Natalia Kot   Poland 9.333 9.166 18.500
9 Lyudmila Yegorova   Soviet Union 9.200 9.266 18.466
10 Miranda Cicognani   Italy 9.066 9.366 18.433
10 Doris Hedberg   Sweden 9.200 9.233 18.433
12 Elena Lagorara   Italy 8.933 9.366 18.300
13 Andrea Bodó-Molnár   Hungary 9.066 9.200 18.266
13 Sonia Iovan-Inovan   Romania 9.100 9.166 18.266
13 Georgeta Hurmuzachi   Romania 8.966 9.300 18.266
16 Anna Marejková   Czechoslovakia 9.133 9.100 18.233
16 Margit Korondi   Hungary 8.900 9.333 18.233
16 Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda   Japan 9.133 9.100 18.233
16 Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel   Poland 9.133 9.100 18.233
20 Matylda Matoušková-Šínová   Czechoslovakia 9.033 9.166 18.200
20 Luciana Reali   Italy 9.000 9.200 18.200
22 Eva Bosáková-Věchtová   Czechoslovakia 9.000 9.166 18.166
23 Ágnes Keleti   Hungary 8.833 9.300 18.133
23 Elena Mărgărit   Romania 8.933 9.200 18.133
23 Kazuko Sogabe   Japan 9.066 9.066 18.133
23 Karin Lindberg   Sweden 8.866 9.266 18.133
27 Ivanka Dolzheva   Bulgaria 8.900 9.200 18.100
27 Elena Săcălici   Romania 8.866 9.233 18.100
27 Eva Rönström   Sweden 8.900 9.200 18.100
30 Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă   Romania 8.900 9.166 18.066
30 Mitsuka Ikeda   Japan 9.133 8.933 18.066
32 Rosella Cicognani   Italy 8.733 9.300 18.033
32 Maude Karlén   Sweden 8.966 9.066 18.033
32 Joyce Racek   United States 8.900 9.133 18.033
35 Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova   Bulgaria 8.900 9.100 18.000
35 Alena Reichová   Czechoslovakia 9.000 9.000 18.000
35 Doris Fuchs   United States 8.966 9.033 18.000
38 Evy Berggren   Sweden 9.100 8.866 17.966
39 Luciana Lagorara   Italy 8.800 9.133 17.933
40 Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles   Hungary 8.866 9.033 17.900
40 Pat Hirst   Great Britain 8.966 8.933 17.900
42 Danuta Nowak-Stachow   Poland 8.966 8.900 17.866
42 Věra Drazdíková   Czechoslovakia 9.000 8.866 17.866
42 Suzuko Seki   Japan 9.000 8.866 17.866
45 Ernestine Russell-Carter   Canada 9.000 8.833 17.833
46 Tsvetanka Stancheva   Bulgaria 8.933 8.866 17.800
46 Sandra Ruddick   United States 8.933 8.866 17.800
48 Miroslava Brdíčková   Czechoslovakia 8.866 8.866 17.333
48 Lidia Szczerbińska   Poland 9.033 8.700 17.733
50 Polina Astakhova   Soviet Union 8.733 8.833 17.566
50 Kyoko Kubota   Japan 8.733 8.833 17.566
50 Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska   Poland 8.833 8.733 17.566
53 Elisa Calsi   Italy 8.700 8.833 17.533
54 Shizuko Sakashita   Japan 8.800 8.700 17.500
55 Danièle Sicot-Coulon   France 8.400 9.000 17.400
56 Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova   Soviet Union 9.200 8.133 17.333
57 Jackie Klein   United States 8.633 8.666 17.300
58 Muriel Davis-Grossfeld   United States 8.633 8.333 16.966
59 Judy Howe   United States 8.600 7.666 16.266
60 Annette Krier   Luxembourg 8.033 7.800 15.833
61 Barbara Cunningham   Australia 7.800 7.600 15.400
62 Ing Fraser   Australia 7.733 6.633 14.366
63 Wendy Nicholls   Australia 5.933 7.700 13.633
64 Aliz Kertész   Hungary 8.766 8.766

References

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  1. ^ Official Report, pp. 492–97.