| | Event type

Floor Exercise, Women

Date	3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-14:00
Status	Olympic
Location	West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Participants	64 from 15 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

The gold medal was shared by Soviet Larysa Latynina and Hungarian Ágnes Keleti, who won three apparatus gold medals in Melbourne, missing out only on the vault. Keleti had also competed at the 1952 Olympics, but her Olympic career ended when she defected to Australia after the Melbourne Games, eventually settling in Israel. Latynina would repeat as gold medalist on the floor in both 1960 and 1964. The bronze in 1956 went to Romanian Elena Leuştean-Popescu. Romania would later become a power in women’s gymnastics, but Leuştean-Popescu bronze medal was the first individual gymnastics medal won by Romania.

Pos	Competitor	NOC	Points	Compulsory Exercise Points	Optional Exercise Points
=1	Larisa Latynina	URS	18.733	9.266	9.466	Gold	1
=1	Ágnes Keleti	HUN	18.733	9.266	9.466	Gold	2
3	Elena Leuştean	ROU	18.700	9.266	9.433	Bronze	3
=4	Sofya Muratova	URS	18.566	9.300	9.266		4
=4	Keiko Tanaka	JPN	18.566	9.300	9.266		5
=4	Eva Bosáková-Věchtová	TCH	18.566	9.233	9.333		6
7	Olga Tass-Lemhényi	HUN	18.533	9.266	9.266		7
8	Doris Hedberg	SWE	18.500	9.266	9.233		8
=9	Tamara Manina	URS	18.466	9.200	9.266		9
=9	Lyudmila Yegorova	URS	18.466	9.000	9.466		10
=11	Lidiya Kalinina	URS	18.433	9.266	9.166		11
=11	Georgeta Hurmuzachi	ROU	18.433	9.266	9.166		12
13	Polina Astakhova	URS	18.400	9.166	9.233		13
=14	Anna Marejková	TCH	18.366	9.200	9.166		14
=14	Helena Rakoczy	POL	18.366	9.133	9.233		15
=14	Natalia Kot	POL	18.366	9.133	9.233		16
17	Elena Mărgărit	ROU	18.333	9.166	9.166		17
=18	Eva Rönström	SWE	18.233	9.133	9.100		18
=18	Mitsuka Ikeda	JPN	18.233	9.100	9.133		19
=20	Sonia Inovan	ROU	18.200	9.133	9.066		20
=20	Ernestine Russell	CAN	18.200	9.000	9.200		21
=22	Miranda Cicognani	ITA	18.166	9.166	9.000		22
=22	Ann-Sofi Colling	SWE	18.166	9.066	9.100		23
=22	Shizuko Sakashita	JPN	18.166	9.033	9.133		24
=25	Muriel Davis	USA	18.133	9.100	9.033		25
=25	Tsvetanka Stancheva	BUL	18.133	9.066	9.066		26
=25	Margit Korondi	HUN	18.133	9.033	9.100		27
=25	Kazuko Sogabe	JPN	18.133	9.033	9.100		28
=25	Maude Karlén	SWE	18.133	9.000	9.133		29
=30	Andrea Bodó-Molnár	HUN	18.100	9.166	8.933		30
=30	Elena Săcălici	ROU	18.100	9.066	9.033		31
=30	Saltirka Tarpova	BUL	18.100	9.000	9.100		32
33	Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles	HUN	18.066	8.966	9.100		33
34	Alíz Kertész	HUN	18.033	9.066	8.966		34
=35	Suzuko Seki	JPN	17.966	8.966	9.000		35
=35	Kyoko Kubota	JPN	17.966	8.900	9.066		36
37	Matylda Šínová	TCH	17.933	9.000	8.933		37
38	Věra Drazdíková	TCH	17.900	9.033	8.866		38
=39	Karin Lindberg	SWE	17.866	9.033	8.833		39
=39	Annette Krier	LUX	17.866	8.966	8.900		40
=39	Rosella Cicognani	ITA	17.866	8.666	9.200		41
=42	Joyce Racek	USA	17.833	8.766	9.066		42
=42	Danuta Nowak-Stachow	POL	17.833	8.700	9.133		43
=44	Evy Berggren	SWE	17.800	8.966	8.833		44
=44	Doris Fuchs	USA	17.800	8.966	8.833		45
=44	Ivanka Dolzheva	BUL	17.800	8.800	9.000		46
=47	Barbara Ślizowska	POL	17.733	8.933	8.800		47
=47	Lidia Szczerbińska	POL	17.733	8.833	8.900		48
=47	Danièle Sicot	FRA	17.733	8.700	9.033		49
50	Emilia Vătăşoiu	ROU	17.700	8.833	8.866		50
51	Elena Lagorara	ITA	17.666	8.633	9.033		51
52	Elisa Calsi	ITA	17.566	8.800	8.766		52
=53	Sandra Ruddick	USA	17.533	9.100	8.433		53
=53	Miroslava Brdíčková	TCH	17.533	8.766	8.766		54
=53	Luciana Lagorara	ITA	17.533	8.700	8.833		55
56	Luciana Reali	ITA	17.466	8.500	8.966		56
=57	Alena Reichová	TCH	17.433	8.933	8.500		57
=57	Jackie Klein	USA	17.433	8.900	8.533		58
59	Dorota Jokiel	POL	17.366	8.333	9.033		59
60	Judy Howe	USA	17.066	8.733	8.333		60
61	Ing Fraser	AUS	16.700	8.766	7.933		61
62	Barbara Cunningham	AUS	15.933	8.266	7.666		62
63	Pat Hirst	GBR	15.766	8.566	7.200		63
64	Wendy Nicholls	AUS	15.700	7.766	7.933		64