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.

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 9.366 18.800 9.300 9.333 18.633 9.233 9.400 18.633 4 9.300 9.233 18.533 4 9.300 9.233 18.533 6 9.300 9.200 18.500 7 9.233 9.233 18.466 7 9.266 9.200 18.466 7 9.100 9.366 18.466 10 9.166 9.266 18.433 11 9.100 9.166 18.266 12 9.100 9.133 18.233 13 9.100 9.066 18.166 13 9.066 9.100 18.166 13 9.066 9.100 18.166 16 9.033 9.100 18.133 16 9.066 9.066 18.133 16 8.966 9.166 18.133 19 9.066 9.033 18.100 20 8.966 9.100 18.066 21 9.266 8.733 18.000 21 8.900 9.100 18.000 23 9.300 8.666 17.966 24 9.000 8.933 17.933 25 8.900 9.000 17.900 26 8.800 9.066 17.866 26 8.833 9.033 17.866 28 8.766 9.033 17.800 29 8.933 8.833 17.766 30 8.833 8.800 17.633 30 8.866 8.766 17.633 32 8.633 8.966 17.600 33 8.633 8.933 17.566 33 8.800 8.766 17.566 33 8.366 9.200 17.566 36 8.600 8.900 17.500 36 9.100 8.400 17.500 38 8.566 8.900 17.466 39 9.033 8.400 17.433 39 8.566 8.866 17.433 41 8.700 8.700 17.400 41 8.600 8.800 17.400 43 8.700 8.633 17.333 44 8.966 8.333 17.300 44 8.633 8.666 17.300 46 8.266 8.966 17.233 47 9.033 8.100 17.133 47 8.566 8.566 17.133 49 8.366 8.733 17.100 50 8.166 8.733 16.900 50 8.033 8.866 16.900 52 8.000 8.866 16.866 52 8.466 8.400 16.866 54 8.700 8.133 16.833 55 8.333 8.133 16.466 56 8.466 7.933 16.400 57 8.333 8.033 16.366 58 8.600 7.733 16.333 59 7.433 8.533 15.966 60 7.733 8.166 15.900 61 8.666 7.000 15.766 62 8.200 7.533 15.733 63 8.300 6.633 14.933 64 7.966 6.233 14.200

References

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