Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

Men's vault
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
   Germany
   Soviet Union
   Soviet Union
Gymnastics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-around   men   women
Team Portable
Apparatus
  women

Individual all-around men women
Vault men women
Floor men women
Pommel horse men
Rings men
Parallel bars men
Horizontal bar men
Uneven bars women
Balance beam women

These are the results of the men's vault competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

Results

Qualification

Sixty-three gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds of the team competition. The top scorers in the team competition won the individual medals. There was no separate competition for individual apparatus.

Final

Rank Gymnast C V Total
 Helmut Bantz (EUA) 9.4009.45018.850
 Valentin Muratov (URS) 9.4509.45018.850
 Yuri Titov (URS) 9.3509.40018.750
4  Theo Wied (EUA) 9.3009.40018.700
4  Boris Shakhlin (URS) 9.3509.35018.700
6  Masao Takemoto (JPN) 9.2009.45018.650

References


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