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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.
| 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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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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