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.
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| Venue | West Melbourne Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 3–7 December | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 64 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
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| 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 | |
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:[1]
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References
- Official Report, pp. 492–97.
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