Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Games: Previous Summer Games ▪ Next Summer Games
Host City: Melbourne, Australia
Venue(s): West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Date Started: December 3, 1956
Date Finished: December 7, 1956
Format: Compulsory and optional exercise performed on all four apparatuses.
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[Larysa Latynina] had competed on the Soviet team at the 1954 World Championships, but was not a star and won no individual medals. By the time of the Melbourne Olympics, she had improved and won the gold medal in all-around comfortably over Hungarian [Ãgnes Keleti], with Latyninaâs teammate, [Sofiya Muratova] taking bronze. Latynina would win six medals in Melbourne, including four golds, missing out only on the balance beam where she finished fourth. While a career for most gymnasts, Latynina would return and win six medals again in 1960 at Rome and 1964 at Tokyo, ending her career with 18 Olympic medals, an absolute Olympic record that lasted until [Michael Phelps] surpassed her at London in 2012, where he finished with 22 medals.
Muratova was the wife of [Valentin Muratov], who also starred in Melbourne on the Soviet menâs team. She would competed again in Rome and end her Olympic career with eight medals and two golds. Keletiâs career had a different ending. She had competed at the 1952 Olympics, but after the Hungarian November Revolution of 1956, she defected while in Melbourne, and eventually settled in Israel, where she coached the national womenâs team.
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | PTS | CEP | OEP | |
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1 | Larysa Latynina | 21 | Soviet Union | URS | Gold | 74.933 | 37.233 | 37.700 | |
2 | Ãgnes Keleti | 35 | Hungary | HUN | Silver | 74.633 | 37.066 | 37.566 | |
3 | Sofiya Muratova | 27 | Soviet Union | URS | Bronze | 74.466 | 37.266 | 37.200 | |
4T | Elena LeuÈtean-Popescu | 21 | Romania | ROU | 74.366 | 37.300 | 37.066 | ||
4T | Olga Tass-Lemhényi | 27 | Hungary | HUN | 74.366 | 37.033 | 37.333 | ||
6 | Tamara Manina | 22 | Soviet Union | URS | 74.233 | 36.900 | 37.333 | ||
7 | Eva Bosáková-VÄchtová | 24 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 74.100 | 36.933 | 37.166 | ||
8 | Helena Rakoczy | 34 | Poland | POL | 73.700 | 36.566 | 37.133 | ||
9 | Natalia Kot | 18 | Poland | POL | 73.633 | 36.833 | 36.800 | ||
10 | Lyudmila Yegorova | 25 | Soviet Union | URS | 73.533 | 36.133 | 37.400 | ||
11 | Anna Marejková | 23 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 73.500 | 36.733 | 36.766 | ||
12 | Margit Korondi | 24 | Hungary | HUN | 73.333 | 36.300 | 37.033 | ||
13 | Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda | 23 | Japan | JPN | 73.100 | 36.733 | 36.366 | ||
14T | Andrea Bodó-Molnár | 22 | Hungary | HUN | 72.900 | 36.533 | 36.366 | ||
14T | Sonia Iovan-Inovan | 21 | Romania | ROU | 72.900 | 36.433 | 36.466 | ||
16 | Gheorgheta Hurmuzachi | 20 | Romania | ROU | 72.733 | 36.200 | 36.533 | ||
17 | Polina Astakhova | 20 | Soviet Union | URS | 72.700 | 36.166 | 36.533 | ||
18 | Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles | 32 | Hungary | HUN | 72.200 | 35.900 | 36.300 | ||
19 | Ivanka Dolzheva | 21 | Bulgaria | BUL | 72.133 | 35.600 | 36.533 | ||
20 | Emilia VÄtÄÈoiu-LiÈÄ | 23 | Romania | ROU | 72.100 | 35.800 | 36.300 | ||
21T | Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova | 19 | Soviet Union | URS | 72.033 | 36.400 | 35.633 | ||
21T | Elena MÄrgÄrit-NiculeÈcu | 20 | Romania | ROU | 72.033 | 35.766 | 36.266 | ||
23 | Mitsuka Ikeda | 24 | Japan | JPN | 71.900 | 36.233 | 35.666 | ||
24 | Kazuko Sogabe | 20 | Japan | JPN | 71.833 | 35.600 | 36.233 | ||
25T | Matylda MatouÅ¡ková-Å Ãnová | 23 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 71.800 | 35.800 | 36.000 | ||
25T | Danuta Nowak-Stachow | 22 | Poland | POL | 71.800 | 35.466 | 36.333 | ||
27 | Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel | 22 | Poland | POL | 71.666 | 35.266 | 36.400 | ||
28 | Miranda Cicognani | 20 | Italy | ITA | 71.600 | 36.166 | 35.433 | ||
29 | Shizuko Sakashita | 22 | Japan | JPN | 71.500 | 35.500 | 36.000 | ||
30 | Elena SÄcÄlici | Romania | ROU | 71.433 | 35.800 | 35.633 | |||
31 | Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling | 24 | Sweden | SWE | 71.400 | 35.433 | 35.966 | ||
32 | VÄra DrazdÃková | 23 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 71.333 | 35.533 | 35.800 | ||
33 | Tsvetanka Stancheva | 27 | Bulgaria | BUL | 71.266 | 35.100 | 36.166 | ||
34 | Kyoko Kubota | 23 | Japan | JPN | 71.133 | 35.266 | 35.866 | ||
35 | Suzuko Seki | 20 | Japan | JPN | 71.000 | 35.600 | 35.400 | ||
36 | Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova | 23 | Bulgaria | BUL | 70.966 | 35.466 | 35.500 | ||
37T | Luciana Reali | 20 | Italy | ITA | 70.933 | 34.966 | 35.966 | ||
37T | Eva Rönström | 23 | Sweden | SWE | 70.933 | 34.900 | 36.033 | ||
39 | Alena Reichová | 23 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 70.866 | 35.433 | 35.433 | ||
40 | Miroslava BrdÃÄková | 29 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 70.833 | 35.400 | 35.433 | ||
41 | Danièle Sicot-Coulon | 21 | France | FRA | 70.800 | 34.766 | 36.033 | ||
42 | Rosella Cicognani | 17 | Italy | ITA | 70.766 | 34.533 | 36.233 | ||
43 | Elisa Calsi | 19 | Italy | ITA | 70.733 | 35.200 | 35.533 | ||
44 | Elena Lagorara | 17 | Italy | ITA | 70.700 | 34.733 | 35.966 | ||
45 | Barbara Wilk-Ålizowska | 21 | Poland | POL | 70.533 | 35.300 | 35.233 | ||
46 | Doris Hedberg | 20 | Sweden | SWE | 70.466 | 35.000 | 35.466 | ||
47 | Lidia SzczerbiÅska | 22 | Poland | POL | 70.300 | 35.166 | 35.133 | ||
48 | Karin Lindberg | 27 | Sweden | SWE | 70.033 | 34.266 | 35.766 | ||
49 | Evy Berggren | 22 | Sweden | SWE | 69.966 | 34.600 | 35.366 | ||
50 | Luciana Lagorara | 19 | Italy | ITA | 69.700 | 34.500 | 35.200 | ||
51 | Sandra Ruddick | 24 | United States | USA | 69.133 | 35.166 | 33.966 | ||
52 | Muriel Davis-Grossfeld | 16 | United States | USA | 68.933 | 34.900 | 34.033 | ||
53 | Maude Karlén | 23 | Sweden | SWE | 68.800 | 33.966 | 34.833 | ||
54 | Joyce Racek | 18 | United States | USA | 68.500 | 34.533 | 33.966 | ||
55 | Jackie Klein | 19 | United States | USA | 68.300 | 34.133 | 34.166 | ||
56 | Ernestine Russell-Carter | 18 | Canada | CAN | 67.933 | 34.633 | 33.300 | ||
57 | Doris Fuchs | 18 | United States | USA | 67.733 | 34.733 | 33.000 | ||
58 | Judy Howe | 21 | United States | USA | 67.200 | 34.300 | 32.900 | ||
59 | Annette Krier | 19 | Luxembourg | LUX | 66.266 | 32.633 | 33.633 | ||
60 | Pat Hirst | 38 | Great Britain | GBR | 65.833 | 33.366 | 32.466 | ||
61 | Aliz Kertész | 21 | Hungary | HUN | 63.400 | 36.466 | 26.933 | ||
62 | Ing Fraser | Australia | AUS | 62.433 | 32.700 | 29.733 | |||
63 | Barbara Cunningham | 30 | Australia | AUS | 61.700 | 31.966 | 29.733 | ||
64 | Wendy Nicholls | 19 | Australia | AUS | 60.533 | 28.900 | 31.633 | ||
65 | Jacqueline Dieudonné | 23 | France | FRA | 8.266 | 8.266 | 0.000 |