Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam

Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-around		men		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

The women's balance beam was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Věra Čáslavská Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Tamara Manina Soviet Union (URS)	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (URS)

Results

Preliminary

Each gymnast competed in both compulsory and optional exercises. The score for each was determined by a panel of five judges, with the top and bottom scores being dropped before the remaining three were averaged (and truncated to three decimal places). The two average scores were then summed. This score was also used in calculating both individual all-around and team scores.

The top 6 advanced to the final for the apparatus, keeping half of their preliminary score to be added to their final score.

1.	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	9.566	9.800	19.366	QF
2.	Tamara Manina (URS)	9.466	9.800	19.266	QF
3.	Larisa Latynina (URS)	9.500	9.733	19.233	QF
4.	Hana Ruzickova (TCH)	9.466	9.766	19.232	QF
5.	Polina Astakhova (URS)	9.400	9.800	19.200	QF
6.	Ikeda Keiko (JPN)	9.466	9.700	19.166	QF
7.	Jaroslava Sedlackova (TCH)	9.400	9.566	18.966
	Elena Volchetskaya (URS)	9.366	9.600	18.966
9.	Birgit Radochla (EUA)	9.400	9.533	18.933
10.	Katalin Muller (HUN)	9.400	9.500	18.900
11.	Ducza Janosi (HUN)	9.433	9.466	18.899
	Elena Popescu (ROU)	9.366	9.533	18.899
	Adolfina Tkacikova (TCH)	9.366	9.533	18.899
14.	Sonia Iovan (ROU)	9.366	9.500	18.866
15.	Jana Posnerova (TCH)	9.300	9.500	18.800
16.	Katalin Makray (HUN)	9.333	9.466	18.799
17.	Ono Kiyoko (JPN)	9.233	9.500	18.733
	Ute Starke (EUA)	9.333	9.400	18.733
	Maria Tressel (HUN)	9.300	9.433	18.733
	Tamara Zamotailova (URS)	9.200	9.533	18.733
21.	Gerda Brylka (POL)	9.266	9.466	18.732
22.	Ludmila Gromova (URS)	9.266	9.433	18.699
	Mak Kovacs (HUN)	9.266	9.433	18.699
	Linda Metheny (USA)	9.166	9.533	18.699
	Malgorzata Wilczek (POL)	9.366	9.333	18.699
26.	Ingrid Fost (EUA)	9.366	9.300	18.666
27.	Tsuji Hiroko (JPN)	9.233	9.400	18.633
28.	Elzbieta Apostolska (POL)	9.166	9.466	18.632
29.	Aihara Toshiko (JPN)	9.333	9.266	18.599
	Nakamura Taniko (JPN)	9.133	9.466	18.599
31.	Elena Ceampelea (ROU)	9.166	9.400	18.566
	Marie Krajcirova (TCH)	9.266	9.300	18.566
	Karin Mannewitz (EUA)	9.266	9.300	18.566
34.	Tolnai Erdosi (HUN)	9.200	9.333	18.533
35.	Atanasia Ionescu (ROU)	9.166	9.300	18.466
	Dorota Miler (POL)	9.133	9.333	18.466
	Gundigmaa Tsagandorj (MGL)	9.200	9.266	18.466
38.	Chiba Ginko (JPN)	9.133	9.300	18.433
39.	Barbara Eustachiewicz (POL)	9.066	9.366	18.432
	Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă (ROU)	9.166	9.266	18.432
41.	Laila Egman (SWE)	9.100	9.300	18.400
	Ewa Rydell (SWE)	9.000	9.400	18.400
43.	Muriel Grossfeld (USA)	8.933	9.466	18.399
44.	Monique Baelden (FRA)	9.166	9.200	18.366
	Janie Speaks (USA)	9.066	9.300	18.366
46.	Christel Felgner (EUA)	9.200	9.150	18.350
47.	Raina Grigorova (BUL)	9.066	9.266	18.332
48.	Ulla Lindstrom (SWE)	9.100	9.200	18.300
49.	Liliana Alexandrova (BUL)	9.000	9.266	18.266
	Veronica Grymonprez (BEL)	9.233	9.033	18.266
	Anna Lundquist (SWE)	9.100	9.166	18.266
	Barbara Stolz (EUA)	9.133	9.133	18.266
	Marie Walther (USA)	8.900	9.366	18.266
54.	D. E. McClements (USA)	9.000	9.233	18.233
55.	Jacqueline Brisepierre (FRA)	9.066	9.133	18.199
	Barbara Fletcher (AUS)	8.966	9.233	18.199
	Anne-Marie Lambert (SWE)	9.066	9.133	18.199
58.	Gerola Lindahl (SWE)	8.966	9.166	18.132
59.	Kathleen Corrigan (USA)	8.900	9.166	18.066
	Gail Daley (CAN)	9.033	9.033	18.066
	Lee Duk Boon (KOR)	8.966	9.100	18.066
62.	Janice Bedford (AUS)	8.900	9.133	18.033
	Henriette Parzer (AUT)	8.800	9.233	18.033
64.	Evelyne Letourneur (FRA)	9.266	8.766	18.032
65.	Choi Young Sook (KOR)	9.033	8.933	17.966
66.	Valerie Roberts (AUS)	8.900	9.033	17.933
67.	Tuya Yadamsuren (MGL)	9.000	8.733	17.733
68.	Salme Koskinen (FIN)	8.600	9.066	17.666
	Gizela Niedurna (POL)	9.300	8.366	17.666
70.	Theodora Hill (NZL)	8.800	8.700	17.500
71.	Esbela Fonseca (POR)	8.666	8.833	17.499
72.	Cristina Dobosan (ROU)	9.100	8.300	17.400
73.	Denise Goddard (GBR)	8.666	8.533	17.199
74.	Eira Lehtonen (FIN)	8.733	8.400	17.133
75.	Valerie Buffham (AUS)	8.633	8.466	17.099
76.	Pauline Gardiner (NZL)	8.733	8.066	16.799
77.	Hong Than Kwai (ROC)	8.800	7.866	16.666
78.	Monica Rutherford (GBR)	8.633	7.900	16.533
79.	Jean Spencer (NZL)	8.666	7.300	15.966
80.	Barbara Cage (AUS)	8.333	7.133	15.466
81.	Jamileh Sorouri (IRI)	7.233	8.000	15.233
82.	Chung Bong Soon (KOR)	8.800	6.000	14.800
83.	Evelyn Magluyan (PHI)	7.666	6.666	14.332
84.	Chai Kuang Tai (ROC)	—	—	0.000
	Maria Floro (PHI)	—	—	0.000
	Lynette Hancock (AUS)	—	—	0.000

Final

	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	9.683 (1st)	+9.766 (1st)	19.449
	Tamara Manina (URS)	9.633 (2nd)	+9.766 (1st)	19.399
	Larisa Latynina (URS)	9.616 (3rd)	+9.766 (1st)	19.382
4.	Polina Astakhova (URS)	9.600 (5th)	+9.766 (1st)	19.366
5.	Hana Ruzickova (TCH)	9.616 (3rd)	+9.733 (5th)	19.349
6.	Ikeda Keiko (JPN)	9.583 (6th)	+9.633 (6th)	19.216

Sources

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.