# Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam

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

## Competition format

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

The results of the competition:
| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Compulsory | Voluntary | Total |
| | Ágnes Keleti | Hungary | 9.433 | 9.366 | 18.800 |
| | Eva Bosáková-Věchtová | Czechoslovakia | 9.300 | 9.333 | 18.633 |
| | Tamara Manina | Soviet Union | 9.233 | 9.400 | 18.633 |
| 4 | Larysa Latynina | Soviet Union | 9.300 | 9.233 | 18.533 |
| 4 | Anna Marejková | Czechoslovakia | 9.300 | 9.233 | 18.533 |
| 6 | Elena Leușteanu | Romania | 9.300 | 9.200 | 18.500 |
| 7 | Olga Tass-Lemhényi | Hungary | 9.233 | 9.233 | 18.466 |
| 7 | Margit Korondi | Hungary | 9.266 | 9.200 | 18.466 |
| 7 | Lyudmila Yegorova | Soviet Union | 9.100 | 9.366 | 18.466 |
| 10 | Sofia Muratova | Soviet Union | 9.166 | 9.266 | 18.433 |
| 11 | Sonia Iovan-Inovan | Romania | 9.100 | 9.166 | 18.266 |
| 12 | Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă | Romania | 9.100 | 9.133 | 18.233 |
| 13 | Natalia Kot | Poland | 9.100 | 9.066 | 18.166 |
| 13 | Polina Astakhova | Soviet Union | 9.066 | 9.100 | 18.166 |
| 13 | Kazuko Sogabe | Japan | 9.066 | 9.100 | 18.166 |
| 16 | Helena Rakoczy | Poland | 9.033 | 9.100 | 18.133 |
| 16 | Andrea Bodó-Molnár | Hungary | 9.066 | 9.066 | 18.133 |
| 16 | Shizuko Sakashita | Japan | 8.966 | 9.166 | 18.133 |
| 19 | Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles | Hungary | 9.066 | 9.033 | 18.100 |
| 20 | Kyoko Kubota | Japan | 8.966 | 9.100 | 18.066 |
| 21 | Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda | Japan | 9.266 | 8.733 | 18.000 |
| 21 | Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova | Soviet Union | 8.900 | 9.100 | 18.000 |
| 23 | Aliz Kertész | Hungary | 9.300 | 8.666 | 17.966 |
| 24 | Elisa Calsi | Italy | 9.000 | 8.933 | 17.933 |
| 25 | Danièle Sicot-Coulon | France | 8.900 | 9.000 | 17.900 |
| 26 | Ivanka Dolzheva | Bulgaria | 8.800 | 9.066 | 17.866 |
| 26 | Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel | Poland | 8.833 | 9.033 | 17.866 |
| 28 | Věra Drazdíková | Czechoslovakia | 8.766 | 9.033 | 17.800 |
| 29 | Georgeta Hurmuzachi | Romania | 8.933 | 8.833 | 17.766 |
| 30 | Elena Mărgărit | Romania | 8.833 | 8.800 | 17.633 |
| 30 | Lidia Szczerbińska | Poland | 8.866 | 8.766 | 17.633 |
| 32 | Muriel Davis-Grossfeld | United States | 8.633 | 8.966 | 17.600 |
| 33 | Danuta Nowak-Stachow | Poland | 8.633 | 8.933 | 17.566 |
| 33 | Miroslava Brdíčková | Czechoslovakia | 8.800 | 8.766 | 17.566 |
| 33 | Tsvetanka Stancheva | Bulgaria | 8.366 | 9.200 | 17.566 |
| 36 | Alena Reichová | Czechoslovakia | 8.600 | 8.900 | 17.500 |
| 36 | Suzuko Seki | Japan | 9.100 | 8.400 | 17.500 |
| 38 | Matylda Matoušková-Šínová | Czechoslovakia | 8.566 | 8.900 | 17.466 |
| 39 | Mitsuka Ikeda | Japan | 9.033 | 8.400 | 17.433 |
| 39 | Rosella Cicognani | Italy | 8.566 | 8.866 | 17.433 |
| 41 | Luciana Reali | Italy | 8.700 | 8.700 | 17.400 |
| 41 | Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling | Sweden | 8.600 | 8.800 | 17.400 |
| 43 | Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska | Poland | 8.700 | 8.633 | 17.333 |
| 44 | Elena Săcălici | Romania | 8.966 | 8.333 | 17.300 |
| 44 | Elena Lagorara | Italy | 8.633 | 8.666 | 17.300 |
| 46 | Karin Lindberg | Sweden | 8.266 | 8.966 | 17.233 |
| 47 | Miranda Cicognani | Italy | 9.033 | 8.100 | 17.133 |
| 47 | Luciana Lagorara | Italy | 8.566 | 8.566 | 17.133 |
| 49 | Jackie Klein | United States | 8.366 | 8.733 | 17.100 |
| 50 | Eva Rönström | Sweden | 8.166 | 8.733 | 16.900 |
| 50 | Maude Karlén | Sweden | 8.033 | 8.866 | 16.900 |
| 52 | Evy Berggren | Sweden | 8.000 | 8.866 | 16.866 |
| 52 | Judy Howe | United States | 8.466 | 8.400 | 16.866 |
| 54 | Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova | Bulgaria | 8.700 | 8.133 | 16.833 |
| 55 | Sandra Ruddick | United States | 8.333 | 8.133 | 16.466 |
| 56 | Doris Hedberg | Sweden | 8.466 | 7.933 | 16.400 |
| 57 | Wendy Nicholls | Australia | 8.333 | 8.033 | 16.366 |
| 58 | Joyce Racek | United States | 8.600 | 7.733 | 16.333 |
| 59 | Annette Krier | Luxembourg | 7.433 | 8.533 | 15.966 |
| 60 | Pat Hirst | Great Britain | 7.733 | 8.166 | 15.900 |
| 61 | Ernestine Russell-Carter | Canada | 8.666 | 7.000 | 15.766 |
| 62 | Ing Fraser | Australia | 8.200 | 7.533 | 15.733 |
| 63 | Doris Fuchs | United States | 8.300 | 6.633 | 14.933 |
| 64 | Barbara Cunningham | Australia | 7.966 | 6.233 | 14.200 |