Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's vault

Women's vault
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
    Soviet Union
    Soviet Union
    Hungary
    Sweden
«1952 1960»
Gymnastics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-around   men   women
Team Portable
Apparatus
  women

Individual all-around men women
Vault men women
Floor men women
Pommel horse men
Rings men
Parallel bars men
Horizontal bar men
Uneven bars women
Balance beam women

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

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Results

Qualification

Sixty five gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds of the team competition. The top scorers in the team competition won the individual medals. There was no separate competition for individual apparatus.

Final

Rank Gymnast C V Total
 Larisa Latynina (URS) 9.433 9.400 18.833
 Tamara Manina (URS) 9.466 9.333 18.800
 Olga Tass (HUN) 9.166 9.566 18.733
 Ann-Sofi Colling (SWE) 9.433 9.300 18.733
5  Sofia Muratova (URS) 9.500 9.166 18.666
6  Elena Leuşteanu (ROU) 9.266 9.366 18.633

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