Olympedia – Floor Exercise, Men

Date	3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-16:00
Status	Olympic
Location	West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Participants	63 from 18 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Date

3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-16:00

Status

Olympic

Location

West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria

Participants

63 from 18 countries

Format

Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Valentin Muratov won gold on the floor with the highest score in both the compulsory and optional exercise. The silver medal ended in a three-way tie among Soviet Viktor Chukarin, Japan’s Nobuyuki Aihara, and Swede William Thoresson. Thoresson was the defending gold medalist from Helsinki. Muratov had also won the 1954 World Championships on floor, in which Thoresson won a bronze medal. Aihara, a specialist on floor exercise, would return in 1960 at Rome and improve by winning the gold medal.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points	CEP	OEP
1	Valentin Muratov	URS	19.20	9.60	9.60	Gold
=2	Viktor Chukarin	URS	19.10	9.55	9.55	Silver
=2	Nobuyuki Aihara	JPN	19.10	9.50	9.60	Silver
=2	William Thoresson	SWE	19.10	9.50	9.60	Silver
5	Yury Titov	URS	18.95	9.50	9.45
=6	Ferdinand Daniš	TCH	18.80	9.40	9.40
=6	Mincho Todorov	BUL	18.80	9.35	9.45
=8	Takashi Ono	JPN	18.75	9.40	9.35
=8	Helmut Bantz	GER	18.75	9.35	9.40
=10	Kalevi Suoniemi	FIN	18.70	9.35	9.35
=10	Shinsaku Tsukawaki	JPN	18.70	9.30	9.40
=10	Masami Kubota	JPN	18.70	9.30	9.40
=10	Martti Mansikka	FIN	18.70	9.30	9.40
14	Kurt Wigartz	SWE	18.65	9.25	9.40
15	Armando Vega	USA	18.60	9.20	9.40
=16	Akira Kono	JPN	18.50	9.40	9.10
=16	Robert Klein	GER	18.50	9.30	9.20
=16	Jack Beckner	USA	18.50	9.25	9.25
=16	Onni Lappalainen	FIN	18.50	9.20	9.30
=16	Pavel Stolbov	URS	18.50	9.15	9.35
=16	Berndt Lindfors	FIN	18.50	9.05	9.45
=16	Masao Takemoto	JPN	18.50	9.00	9.50
=23	Theo Wied	GER	18.40	9.20	9.20
=23	Nik Stuart	GBR	18.40	9.20	9.20
=23	Vladimír Kejř	TCH	18.40	9.10	9.30
=23	Abie Grossfeld	USA	18.40	9.10	9.30
=23	Attila Takács	HUN	18.40	8.40	10.00
28	Boris Shakhlin	URS	18.25	8.95	9.30
=29	Josy Stoffel	LUX	18.20	9.20	9.00
=29	Jaroslav Mikoška	TCH	18.20	9.10	9.10
=29	Zdeněk Růžička	TCH	18.20	9.00	9.20
=29	Bill Tom	USA	18.20	9.00	9.20
=33	Velik Kapsazov	BUL	18.15	9.00	9.15
=33	Olavi Leimuvirta	FIN	18.15	8.95	9.20
=33	Hans Pfann	GER	18.15	8.85	9.30
=33	Michel Mathiot	FRA	18.15	8.60	9.55
37	Ed Gagnier	CAN	18.05	8.85	9.20
=38	Josef Škvor	TCH	18.00	8.90	9.10
=38	Jakob Kiefer	GER	18.00	8.85	9.15
40	Albert Azaryan	URS	17.95	8.90	9.05
=41	Dick Beckner	USA	17.90	8.85	9.05
=41	Brian Blackburn	AUS	17.90	8.85	9.05
=41	Stoyan Stoyanov	BUL	17.90	8.80	9.10
44	Jean Guillou	FRA	17.85	9.00	8.85
45	Erich Wied	GER	17.80	8.60	9.20
46	Raimo Heinonen	FIN	17.75	8.60	9.15
47	Raymond Dot	FRA	17.70	8.95	8.75
48	Bruce Sharp	AUS	17.60	8.80	8.80
49	János Héder	HUN	17.40	9.15	8.25
50	Charles Simms	USA	17.25	8.55	8.70
51	Noel Punton	AUS	17.05	8.55	8.50
52	Jaroslav Bím	TCH	16.60	7.90	8.70
53	Frank Turner	GBR	16.55	8.05	8.50
54	Jack Wells	RSA	16.50	8.45	8.05
55	Rafael Lecuona	CUB	16.35	8.30	8.05
=56	David Gourlay	AUS	16.25	8.25	8.00
=56	Ronnie Lombard	RSA	16.25	8.00	8.25
58	Graham Bond	AUS	15.65	7.65	8.00
59	Pritam Singh	IND	15.10	7.80	7.30
60	John Lees	AUS	14.75	7.25	7.50
61	Sham Lal	IND	13.25	6.45	6.80
62	Anant Ram	IND	12.50	5.00	7.50
63	Hans Sauter	AUT	8.50	8.50	0.00

Pos

Competitor(s)

NOC

Points

CEP

OEP

Valentin Muratov

URS