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.

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:Official Report, pp. 492–97.

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total 9.433 9.400 18.833 9.466 9.333 18.800 9.166 9.566 18.733 9.433 9.300 18.733 5 9.500 9.166 18.666 6 9.266 9.366 18.633 7 9.233 9.266 18.500 7 9.333 9.166 18.500 9 9.200 9.266 18.466 10 9.066 9.366 18.433 10 9.200 9.233 18.433 12 8.933 9.366 18.300 13 9.066 9.200 18.266 13 9.100 9.166 18.266 13 8.966 9.300 18.266 16 9.133 9.100 18.233 16 8.900 9.333 18.233 16 9.133 9.100 18.233 16 9.133 9.100 18.233 20 9.033 9.166 18.200 20 9.000 9.200 18.200 22 9.000 9.166 18.166 23 8.833 9.300 18.133 23 8.933 9.200 18.133 23 9.066 9.066 18.133 23 8.866 9.266 18.133 27 8.900 9.200 18.100 27 8.866 9.233 18.100 27 8.900 9.200 18.100 30 8.900 9.166 18.066 30 9.133 8.933 18.066 32 8.733 9.300 18.033 32 8.966 9.066 18.033 32 8.900 9.133 18.033 35 8.900 9.100 18.000 35 9.000 9.000 18.000 35 8.966 9.033 18.000 38 9.100 8.866 17.966 39 8.800 9.133 17.933 40 8.866 9.033 17.900 40 8.966 8.933 17.900 42 8.966 8.900 17.866 42 9.000 8.866 17.866 42 9.000 8.866 17.866 45 9.000 8.833 17.833 46 8.933 8.866 17.800 46 8.933 8.866 17.800 48 8.866 8.866 17.333 48 9.033 8.700 17.733 50 8.733 8.833 17.566 50 8.733 8.833 17.566 50 8.833 8.733 17.566 53 8.700 8.833 17.533 54 8.800 8.700 17.500 55 8.400 9.000 17.400 56 9.200 8.133 17.333 57 8.633 8.666 17.300 58 8.633 8.333 16.966 59 8.600 7.666 16.266 60 8.033 7.800 15.833 61 7.800 7.600 15.400 62 7.733 6.633 14.366 63 5.933 7.700 13.633 64 8.766 – 8.766

References

Official Olympic Report www.gymnasticsresults.com www.gymn-forum.net