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Gymnastics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games:

Women's Horse Vault

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Events:

Host City: Melbourne, Australia
Venue(s): West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Date Started: December 3, 1956
Date Finished: December 7, 1956
Format: Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Gold: URS Larysa Latynina
Silver: URS Tamara Manina
Bronze: HUN Olga Tass-Lemhényi
SWE Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling

Summary

Gold on this apparatus went to Soviet [Larysa Latynina], who also won gold in Melbourne in the all-around, the team event, and the floor exercise. She would return in 1960 and add a bronze on vault, and 1964, adding a silver. Second in 1956 went to Latynina’s teammate [Tamara Manina], while bronze was shared by Hungary’s [Olga Tass-Lemhényi] and Sweden’s [Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling]. The 1954 World Championship title on vault was shared by Manina and Pettersson-Colling. This was the only apparatus gold medal that was not won in 1956 by Hungary’s [Ágnes Keleti].

View a Phase of this Event • Final Standings

Final Standings

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC Medal PTS CEP OEP
1 Larysa Latynina 21 Soviet Union URS Gold 18.833 9.433 9.400
2 Tamara Manina 22 Soviet Union URS Silver 18.800 9.466 9.333
3T Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling 24 Sweden SWE Bronze 18.733 9.433 9.300
3T Olga Tass-Lemhényi 27 Hungary HUN Bronze 18.733 9.166 9.566
5 Sofiya Muratova 27 Soviet Union URS 18.666 9.500 9.166
6 Elena Leuștean-Popescu 21 Romania ROU 18.633 9.266 9.366
7T Natalia Kot 18 Poland POL 18.500 9.333 9.166
7T Helena Rakoczy 34 Poland POL 18.500 9.233 9.266
9 Lyudmila Yegorova 25 Soviet Union URS 18.466 9.200 9.266
10T Doris Hedberg 20 Sweden SWE 18.433 9.200 9.233
10T Miranda Cicognani 20 Italy ITA 18.433 9.066 9.366
12 Elena Lagorara 17 Italy ITA 18.300 8.933 9.366
13T Sonia Iovan-Inovan 21 Romania ROU 18.266 9.100 9.166
13T Andrea Bodó-Molnár 22 Hungary HUN 18.266 9.066 9.200
13T Gheorgheta Hurmuzachi 20 Romania ROU 18.266 8.966 9.300
16T Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel 22 Poland POL 18.233 9.133 9.100
16T Anna Marejková 23 Czechoslovakia TCH 18.233 9.133 9.100
16T Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda 23 Japan JPN 18.233 9.133 9.100
16T Margit Korondi 24 Hungary HUN 18.233 8.900 9.333
20T Matylda Matoušková-Šínová 23 Czechoslovakia TCH 18.200 9.033 9.166
20T Luciana Reali 20 Italy ITA 18.200 9.000 9.200
22 Eva Bosáková-Věchtová 24 Czechoslovakia TCH 18.166 9.000 9.166
23T Kazuko Sogabe 20 Japan JPN 18.133 9.066 9.066
23T Elena Mărgărit-Niculeșcu 20 Romania ROU 18.133 8.933 9.200
23T Karin Lindberg 27 Sweden SWE 18.133 8.866 9.266
23T Ágnes Keleti 35 Hungary HUN 18.133 8.833 9.300
27T Eva Rönström 23 Sweden SWE 18.100 8.900 9.200
27T Ivanka Dolzheva 21 Bulgaria BUL 18.100 8.900 9.200
27T Elena Săcălici Romania ROU 18.100 8.866 9.233
30T Mitsuka Ikeda 24 Japan JPN 18.066 9.133 8.933
30T Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță 23 Romania ROU 18.066 8.900 9.166
32T Maude Karlén 23 Sweden SWE 18.033 8.966 9.066
32T Joyce Racek 18 United States USA 18.033 8.900 9.133
32T Rosella Cicognani 17 Italy ITA 18.033 8.733 9.300
35T Alena Reichová 23 Czechoslovakia TCH 18.000 9.000 9.000
35T Doris Fuchs 18 United States USA 18.000 8.966 9.033
35T Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova 23 Bulgaria BUL 18.000 8.900 9.100
38 Evy Berggren 22 Sweden SWE 17.966 9.100 8.866
39 Luciana Lagorara 19 Italy ITA 17.933 8.800 9.133
40T Pat Hirst 38 Great Britain GBR 17.900 8.966 8.933
40T Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles 32 Hungary HUN 17.900 8.866 9.033
42T Věra Drazdíková 23 Czechoslovakia TCH 17.866 9.000 8.866
42T Suzuko Seki 20 Japan JPN 17.866 9.000 8.866
42T Danuta Nowak-Stachow 22 Poland POL 17.866 8.966 8.900
45 Ernestine Russell-Carter 18 Canada CAN 17.833 9.000 8.833
46T Sandra Ruddick 24 United States USA 17.800 8.933 8.866
46T Tsvetanka Stancheva 27 Bulgaria BUL 17.800 8.933 8.866
48T Lidia Szczerbińska 22 Poland POL 17.733 9.033 8.700
48T Miroslava Brdíčková 29 Czechoslovakia TCH 17.733 8.866 8.866
50T Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska 21 Poland POL 17.566 8.833 8.733
50T Polina Astakhova 20 Soviet Union URS 17.566 8.733 8.833
50T Kyoko Kubota 23 Japan JPN 17.566 8.733 8.833
53 Elisa Calsi 19 Italy ITA 17.533 8.700 8.833
54 Shizuko Sakashita 22 Japan JPN 17.500 8.800 8.700
55 Danièle Sicot-Coulon 21 France FRA 17.400 8.400 9.000
56 Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova 19 Soviet Union URS 17.333 9.200 8.133
57 Jackie Klein 19 United States USA 17.300 8.633 8.666
58 Muriel Davis-Grossfeld 16 United States USA 16.966 8.633 8.333
59 Judy Howe 21 United States USA 16.266 8.600 7.666
60 Annette Krier 19 Luxembourg LUX 15.833 8.033 7.800
61 Barbara Cunningham 30 Australia AUS 15.400 7.800 7.600
62 Ing Fraser Australia AUS 14.366 7.733 6.633
63 Wendy Nicholls 19 Australia AUS 13.633 5.933 7.700
64 Aliz Kertész 21 Hungary HUN 8.766 8.766 0.000