Gymnastics At The 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's Uneven Bars
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These are the results of the women's uneven bars competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the
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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.


References


Official Olympic Report
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