Floor Exercise, Women

This was one of only two individual events Soviet women gymnasts did not win in 1952, the other being the uneven bars. In fact the medals were won by the same three athletes in both events. On the floor exercise, Hungary’s Ágnes Keleti won gold, Soviet Mariya Gorokhovskaya won silver, and Keleti’s teammate Margit Korondi won bronze.

On the uneven bars, Gorokhovskaya also won silver, while Keleti and Korondi would trade positions. Keleti won four medals in Helsinki, but in 1956 she would add six more, with three apparatus gold medals, and defended her title in the floor exercise (tying with Larisa Latynina).