Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's floor

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

Women's floor
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueWest Melbourne Stadium
Date3–7 December
Competitors64 from 15 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ágnes Keleti  Hungary
1st place, gold medalist(s) Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Elena Leuşteanu  Romania
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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 9.266 9.466 18.733
  Ágnes Keleti   Hungary 9.266 9.466 18.733
  Elena Leușteanu   Romania 9.266 9.433 18.700
4 Sofia Muratova   Soviet Union 9.300 9.266 18.566
4 Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda   Japan 9.300 9.266 18.566
4 Eva Bosáková-Věchtová   Czechoslovakia 9.233 9.333 18.566
7 Olga Tass-Lemhényi   Hungary 9.266 9.266 18.533
8 Doris Hedberg   Sweden 9.266 9.233 18.500
9 Tamara Manina   Soviet Union 9.200 9.266 18.466
9 Lyudmila Yegorova   Soviet Union 9.000 9.466 18.466
11 Georgeta Hurmuzachi   Romania 9.266 9.166 18.433
11 Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova   Soviet Union 9.266 9.166 18.433
13 Polina Astakhova   Soviet Union 9.166 9.233 18.400
14 Helena Rakoczy   Poland 9.133 9.233 18.366
14 Natalia Kot   Poland 9.133 9.233 18.366
14 Anna Marejková   Czechoslovakia 9.200 9.166 18.366
17 Elena Mărgărit   Romania 9.166 9.166 18.333
18 Eva Rönström   Sweden 9.133 9.100 18.233
18 Mitsuka Ikeda   Japan 9.100 9.133 18.233
20 Sonia Iovan-Inovan   Romania 9.133 9.066 18.200
20 Ernestine Russell-Carter   Canada 9.000 9.200 18.200
22 Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling   Sweden 9.066 9.100 18.166
22 Miranda Cicognani   Italy 9.166 9.000 18.166
22 Shizuko Sakashita   Japan 9.033 9.133 18.166
25 Margit Korondi   Hungary 9.033 9.100 18.133
25 Kazuko Sogabe   Japan 9.033 9.100 18.133
25 Maude Karlén   Sweden 9.000 9.133 18.133
25 Tsvetanka Stancheva   Bulgaria 9.066 9.066 18.133
25 Muriel Davis-Grossfeld   United States 9.100 9.033 18.133
30 Andrea Bodó-Molnár   Hungary 9.166 8.933 18.100
30 Elena Săcălici   Romania 9.066 9.033 18.100
30 Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova   Bulgaria 9.000 9.100 18.100
33 Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles   Hungary 8.966 9.100 18.066
34 Aliz Kertész   Hungary 9.066 8.966 18.033
35 Suzuko Seki   Japan 8.966 9.000 17.966
35 Kyoko Kubota   Japan 8.900 9.066 17.966
37 Matylda Matoušková-Šínová   Czechoslovakia 9.000 8.933 17.933
38 Věra Drazdíková   Czechoslovakia 9.033 8.866 17.900
39 Karin Lindberg   Sweden 9.033 8.833 17.866
39 Rosella Cicognani   Italy 8.666 9.200 17.866
39 Annette Krier   Luxembourg 8.966 8.900 17.866
42 Joyce Racek   United States 8.766 9.066 17.833
42 Danuta Nowak-Stachow   Poland 8.700 9.133 17.833
44 Ivanka Dolzheva   Bulgaria 8.800 9.000 17.800
44 Doris Fuchs   United States 8.966 8.833 17.800
44 Evy Berggren   Sweden 8.966 8.833 17.800
47 Lidia Szczerbińska   Poland 8.833 8.900 17.733
47 Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska   Poland 8.933 8.800 17.733
47 Danièle Sicot-Coulon   France 8.700 9.033 17.733
50 Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă   Romania 8.833 8.866 17.700
51 Elena Lagorara   Italy 8.633 9.033 17.666
52 Elisa Calsi   Italy 8.800 8.766 17.566
53 Luciana Lagorara   Italy 8.700 8.833 17.533
53 Sandra Ruddick   United States 9.100 8.433 17.533
53 Miroslava Brdíčková   Czechoslovakia 8.766 8.766 17.533
56 Luciana Reali   Italy 8.500 8.966 17.466
57 Alena Reichová   Czechoslovakia 8.933 8.500 17.433
57 Jackie Klein   United States 8.900 8.533 17.433
59 Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel   Poland 8.333 9.033 17.366
60 Judy Howe   United States 8.733 8.333 17.066
61 Ing Fraser   Australia 8.766 7.933 16.700
62 Barbara Cunningham   Australia 8.266 7.666 15.933
63 Pat Hirst   Great Britain 8.566 7.200 15.766
64 Wendy Nicholls   Australia 7.766 7.933 15.700

References

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  1. ^ Official Report, pp. 492–97.