Women's balance beam at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | West Melbourne Stadium | ||||||||||||
Date | 3–7 December | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 64 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics | ||
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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 balance beam competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
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.
The results of the competition: [1]
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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.
These are the results of the men's vault competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the men's floor competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the women's floor competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the women's uneven bars competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the men's horizontal bar competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the men's rings competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the women's artistic individual all-around competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the men's parallel bars competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
These are the results of the men's pommel horse competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
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