These are the results of the women's balance beam competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
| Women's balance beam at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Auditorio Nacional | ||||||||||||
| Date | 21–25 October | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 101 from 28 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 19.650 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Kuchinskaya was controversially awarded gold over Čáslavská after initial scores were revised. A similar controversy occurred in the floor event, and both were in favor of Soviet athletes.[1]
Competition format edit
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 101st. In the final, each gymnast performed an additional voluntary exercise; half of the score from the preliminary carried over.
Results edit
| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Preliminary | Final | ||||
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| Compulsory | Voluntary | Total | 1⁄2 Prelim. | Final | Total | |||
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Natalia Kuchinskaya |  Soviet Union |
9.80 | 9.80 | 19.60 | 9.800 | 9.850 | 19.650 |
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Věra Čáslavská |  Czechoslovakia |
9.65 | 9.80 | 19.45 | 9.725 | 9.850 | 19.575 |
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Larisa Petrik | Soviet Union |
9.50 | 9.50 | 19.00 | 9.500 | 9.750 | 19.250 |
| 4 | Linda Metheny |  United States |
9.60 | 9.55 | 19.15 | 9.575 | 9.650 | 19.225 |
| Karin Janz |  East Germany |
9.45 | 9.60 | 19.05 | 9.525 | 9.700 | 19.225 | |
| 6 | Erika Zuchold | East Germany |
9.45 | 9.55 | 19.00 | 9.500 | 9.650 | 19.150 |
| 7 | Cathy Rigby | United States |
9.55 | 9.45 | 19.00 | did not advance | ||
| 8 | Maritta Bauerschmidt | East Germany |
9.50 | 9.45 | 18.95 | did not advance | ||
| 9 | Miyuki Matsuhisa |  Japan |
9.50 | 9.40 | 18.90 | did not advance | ||
| 10 | Ágnes Bánfai |  Hungary |
9.50 | 9.35 | 18.85 | did not advance | ||
| Lyubov Burda | Soviet Union |
9.50 | 9.35 | 18.85 | did not advance | |||
| Hana Lišková | Czechoslovakia |
9.45 | 9.40 | 18.85 | did not advance | |||
| Marianne Noack | East Germany |
9.45 | 9.40 | 18.85 | did not advance | |||
| Bohumila Řimnáčová | Czechoslovakia |
9.45 | 9.40 | 18.85 | did not advance | |||
| 15 | Zinaida Voronina | Soviet Union |
9.40 | 9.40 | 18.80 | did not advance | ||
| 16 | Kazue Hanyu | Japan |
9.35 | 9.40 | 18.75 | did not advance | ||
| Evelyne Letourneur |  France |
9.50 | 9.25 | 18.75 | did not advance | |||
| 18 | Anikó Ducza | Hungary |
9.50 | 9.20 | 18.70 | did not advance | ||
| Olga Karasyova | Soviet Union |
9.30 | 9.40 | 18.70 | did not advance | |||
| Jana Kubičková-Posnerová | Czechoslovakia |
9.30 | 9.40 | 18.70 | did not advance | |||
| Colleen Mulvihill | United States |
9.40 | 9.30 | 18.70 | did not advance | |||
| 22 | Marianna Krajčírová | Czechoslovakia |
9.35 | 9.30 | 18.65 | did not advance | ||
| 23 | Kayoko Hashiguchi | Japan |
9.35 | 9.25 | 18.60 | did not advance | ||
| Mitsuko Kandori | Japan |
9.35 | 9.25 | 18.60 | did not advance | |||
| Taniko Mitsukuri | Japan |
9.35 | 9.25 | 18.60 | did not advance | |||
| Miroslava Skleničková | Czechoslovakia |
9.30 | 9.30 | 18.60 | did not advance | |||
| 27 | Kathy Gleason | United States |
9.15 | 9.30 | 18.45 | did not advance | ||
| Joyce Tanac | United States |
9.25 | 9.20 | 18.45 | did not advance | |||
| 29 | Katalin Makray | Hungary |
9.25 | 9.10 | 18.35 | did not advance | ||
| 30 | Chieko Oda | Japan |
9.25 | 9.05 | 18.30 | did not advance | ||
| Márta Tolnai | Hungary |
9.10 | 9.20 | 18.30 | did not advance | |||
| 32 | Ilona Békési | Hungary |
9.20 | 9.05 | 18.25 | did not advance | ||
| 33 | Wendy Cluff | United States |
9.20 | 9.00 | 18.20 | did not advance | ||
| Ute Starke | East Germany |
9.20 | 9.00 | 18.20 | did not advance | |||
| Neli Stoyanova |  Bulgaria |
8.95 | 9.25 | 18.20 | did not advance | |||
| 36 | Gondegmaa Tsagaandorj |  Mongolia |
8.85 | 9.25 | 18.10 | did not advance | ||
| 37 | Mariya Karashka | Bulgaria |
8.80 | 9.25 | 18.05 | did not advance | ||
| 38 | Wiesława Lech |  Poland |
9.05 | 8.95 | 18.00 | did not advance | ||
| 39 | Jacqueline Brisepierre | France |
9.20 | 8.75 | 17.95 | did not advance | ||
| 40 | Sandra Hartley |  Canada |
8.95 | 8.90 | 17.85 | did not advance | ||
| 41 | Katalin Müller | Hungary |
9.45 | 8.35 | 17.80 | did not advance | ||
| Łucja Ochmańska | Poland |
8.80 | 9.00 | 17.80 | did not advance | |||
| 43 | Mireille Cayre | France |
8.95 | 8.80 | 17.75 | did not advance | ||
| Françoise Nourry | France |
9.15 | 8.60 | 17.75 | did not advance | |||
| Ludmilla Tourischeva | Soviet Union |
9.30 | 8.45 | 17.75 | did not advance | |||
| 46 | Horta Van Hoye |  Belgium |
8.70 | 9.00 | 17.70 | did not advance | ||
| Vesela Pasheva | Bulgaria |
8.75 | 8.95 | 17.70 | did not advance | |||
| 48 | Tuiaa Iadamsurenglin | Mongolia |
8.60 | 9.00 | 17.60 | did not advance | ||
| 49 | Helga Braathen |  Norway |
8.35 | 9.20 | 17.55 | did not advance | ||
| Christiane Goethals | Belgium |
8.45 | 9.10 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| Barbara Zięba | Poland |
8.45 | 9.10 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| 52 | Nancy Aldama |  Cuba |
8.70 | 8.80 | 17.50 | did not advance | ||
| Margaret Bell |  Great Britain |
8.55 | 8.95 | 17.50 | did not advance | |||
| Angelika Kern | West Germany |
8.50 | 9.00 | 17.50 | did not advance | |||
| 55 | Marilynn Minaker | Canada |
8.35 | 9.05 | 17.40 | did not advance | ||
| Wenche Sjong | Norway |
8.45 | 8.95 | 17.40 | did not advance | |||
| 57 | Marie Lundqvist |  Sweden |
8.60 | 8.75 | 17.35 | did not advance | ||
| 58 | Magdalena Schmidt | East Germany |
9.10 | 8.20 | 17.30 | did not advance | ||
| 59 | Jill Kvamme | Norway |
8.20 | 9.05 | 17.25 | did not advance | ||
| 60 | Gabriella Pozzuolo |  Italy |
8.95 | 8.15 | 17.10 | did not advance | ||
| 61 | Adriana Biagiotti | Italy |
9.00 | 8.05 | 17.05 | did not advance | ||
| 62 | Rayna Atanasova | Bulgaria |
8.60 | 8.40 | 17.00 | did not advance | ||
| Zulema Bregado | Cuba |
8.70 | 8.30 | 17.00 | did not advance | |||
| Jennifer Diachun | Canada |
8.90 | 8.10 | 17.00 | did not advance | |||
| Rose-Marie Holm | Sweden |
8.85 | 8.15 | 17.00 | did not advance | |||
| Torunn Isberg | Norway |
7.90 | 9.10 | 17.00 | did not advance | |||
| Dominique Lauvard | France |
9.05 | 7.95 | 17.00 | did not advance | |||
| Theresa McDonnell | Canada |
7.95 | 9.05 | 17.00 | did not advance | |||
| Else Trangbaek |  Denmark |
8.25 | 8.75 | 17.00 | did not advance | |||
| 70 | Suzette Blanco | Cuba |
8.25 | 8.55 | 16.80 | did not advance | ||
| Grażyna Witkowska | Poland |
8.75 | 8.05 | 16.80 | did not advance | |||
| 72 | Norikhoo Dorj | Mongolia |
8.40 | 8.35 | 16.75 | did not advance | ||
| Valerie Norris |  Australia |
8.05 | 8.70 | 16.75 | did not advance | |||
| Mary Prestidge | Great Britain |
8.25 | 8.50 | 16.75 | did not advance | |||
| 75 | Solveig Egman-Andersson | Sweden |
8.30 | 8.40 | 16.70 | did not advance | ||
| Marie-Luise Stegemann | West Germany |
8.65 | 8.05 | 16.70 | did not advance | |||
| 77 | Vanya Marinova | Bulgaria |
7.35 | 9.30 | 16.65 | did not advance | ||
| 78 | Nereida Bauta | Cuba |
8.00 | 8.55 | 16.55 | did not advance | ||
| 79 | Miriam Villacian | Cuba |
8.00 | 8.50 | 16.50 | did not advance | ||
| 80 | Petra Jebram | West Germany |
8.80 | 7.65 | 16.45 | did not advance | ||
| Helga Matschkur | West Germany |
8.75 | 7.70 | 16.45 | did not advance | |||
| 82 | Irmi Krauser | West Germany |
8.50 | 7.90 | 16.40 | did not advance | ||
| 83 | Natalija Sljepica |  Yugoslavia |
8.55 | 7.70 | 16.25 | did not advance | ||
| 84 | Halina Daniec | Poland |
8.50 | 7.45 | 15.95 | did not advance | ||
| 85 | Anna Stein | West Germany |
8.50 | 7.35 | 15.85 | did not advance | ||
| 86 | Daniela Maccelli | Italy |
8.70 | 7.10 | 15.80 | did not advance | ||
| 87 | Unni Holmen | Norway |
8.05 | 7.70 | 15.75 | did not advance | ||
| 88 | Małgorzata Chojnacka | Poland |
8.45 | 7.20 | 15.65 | did not advance | ||
| 89 | Nicole Bourdiau | France |
8.75 | 6.80 | 15.55 | did not advance | ||
| 90 | Suzanne Cloutier | Canada |
8.25 | 7.25 | 15.50 | did not advance | ||
| 91 | Esbela da Fonseca |  Portugal |
7.55 | 7.90 | 15.45 | did not advance | ||
| Elena Ramirez |  Mexico |
7.75 | 7.70 | 15.45 | did not advance | |||
| 93 | Ann-Mari Hvaal | Norway |
7.40 | 7.50 | 14.90 | did not advance | ||
| 94 | Yolanda Vega | Cuba |
8.20 | 6.65 | 14.85 | did not advance | ||
| 95 | Julietta Saenz de Secilia | Mexico |
7.70 | 6.65 | 14.35 | did not advance | ||
| 96 | Luisa Morales | Mexico |
7.05 | 6.85 | 13.90 | did not advance | ||
| Laura Rivera | Mexico |
7.85 | 6.05 | 13.90 | did not advance | |||
| 98 | Yu Mai-Lee |  Chinese Taipei |
7.10 | 6.65 | 13.75 | did not advance | ||
| 99 | Rosalinda Puente | Mexico |
6.90 | 5.90 | 12.80 | did not advance | ||
| 100 | Rosario Briones | Mexico |
6.30 | 6.40 | 12.70 | did not advance | ||
| Hong Tai-kwai | Chinese Taipei |
8.05 | 4.65 | 12.70 | did not advance | |||