These are the results of the women's vault competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Compulsory	Voluntary	Total
	Larysa Latynina	Soviet Union	9.433	9.400	18.833
	Tamara Manina	Soviet Union	9.466	9.333	18.800
	Olga Tass-Lemhényi	Hungary	9.166	9.566	18.733
	Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling	Sweden	9.433	9.300	18.733
5	Sofia Muratova	Soviet Union	9.500	9.166	18.666
6	Elena Leușteanu	Romania	9.266	9.366	18.633
7	Helena Rakoczy	Poland	9.233	9.266	18.500
7	Natalia Kot	Poland	9.333	9.166	18.500
9	Lyudmila Yegorova	Soviet Union	9.200	9.266	18.466
10	Miranda Cicognani	Italy	9.066	9.366	18.433
10	Doris Hedberg	Sweden	9.200	9.233	18.433
12	Elena Lagorara	Italy	8.933	9.366	18.300
13	Andrea Bodó-Molnár	Hungary	9.066	9.200	18.266
13	Sonia Iovan-Inovan	Romania	9.100	9.166	18.266
13	Georgeta Hurmuzachi	Romania	8.966	9.300	18.266
16	Anna Marejková	Czechoslovakia	9.133	9.100	18.233
16	Margit Korondi	Hungary	8.900	9.333	18.233
16	Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda	Japan	9.133	9.100	18.233
16	Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel	Poland	9.133	9.100	18.233
20	Matylda Matoušková-Šínová	Czechoslovakia	9.033	9.166	18.200
20	Luciana Reali	Italy	9.000	9.200	18.200
22	Eva Bosáková-Věchtová	Czechoslovakia	9.000	9.166	18.166
23	Ágnes Keleti	Hungary	8.833	9.300	18.133
23	Elena Mărgărit	Romania	8.933	9.200	18.133
23	Kazuko Sogabe	Japan	9.066	9.066	18.133
23	Karin Lindberg	Sweden	8.866	9.266	18.133
27	Ivanka Dolzheva	Bulgaria	8.900	9.200	18.100
27	Elena Săcălici	Romania	8.866	9.233	18.100
27	Eva Rönström	Sweden	8.900	9.200	18.100
30	Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă	Romania	8.900	9.166	18.066
30	Mitsuka Ikeda	Japan	9.133	8.933	18.066
32	Rosella Cicognani	Italy	8.733	9.300	18.033
32	Maude Karlén	Sweden	8.966	9.066	18.033
32	Joyce Racek	United States	8.900	9.133	18.033
35	Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova	Bulgaria	8.900	9.100	18.000
35	Alena Reichová	Czechoslovakia	9.000	9.000	18.000
35	Doris Fuchs	United States	8.966	9.033	18.000
38	Evy Berggren	Sweden	9.100	8.866	17.966
39	Luciana Lagorara	Italy	8.800	9.133	17.933
40	Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles	Hungary	8.866	9.033	17.900
40	Pat Hirst	Great Britain	8.966	8.933	17.900
42	Danuta Nowak-Stachow	Poland	8.966	8.900	17.866
42	Věra Drazdíková	Czechoslovakia	9.000	8.866	17.866
42	Suzuko Seki	Japan	9.000	8.866	17.866
45	Ernestine Russell-Carter	Canada	9.000	8.833	17.833
46	Tsvetanka Stancheva	Bulgaria	8.933	8.866	17.800
46	Sandra Ruddick	United States	8.933	8.866	17.800
48	Miroslava Brdíčková	Czechoslovakia	8.866	8.866	17.333
48	Lidia Szczerbińska	Poland	9.033	8.700	17.733
50	Polina Astakhova	Soviet Union	8.733	8.833	17.566
50	Kyoko Kubota	Japan	8.733	8.833	17.566
50	Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska	Poland	8.833	8.733	17.566
53	Elisa Calsi	Italy	8.700	8.833	17.533
54	Shizuko Sakashita	Japan	8.800	8.700	17.500
55	Danièle Sicot-Coulon	France	8.400	9.000	17.400
56	Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova	Soviet Union	9.200	8.133	17.333
57	Jackie Klein	United States	8.633	8.666	17.300
58	Muriel Davis-Grossfeld	United States	8.633	8.333	16.966
59	Judy Howe	United States	8.600	7.666	16.266
60	Annette Krier	Luxembourg	8.033	7.800	15.833
61	Barbara Cunningham	Australia	7.800	7.600	15.400
62	Ing Fraser	Australia	7.733	6.633	14.366
63	Wendy Nicholls	Australia	5.933	7.700	13.633
64	Aliz Kertész	Hungary	8.766	–	8.766

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net