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1956
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Mildred McDaniel
USA
1.76
2
Iolanda Balas
ROU
1.75
3
Thelma Hopkins
GBR
1.74
4
Micheline Mason
AUS
1.727
5
Valentina Ballod
URS
1.70
5
Maria Grigalka
URS
1.70
7
Jessie Mary Donaghy
NZL
1.68
8
Olga Modrachova
TCH
1.67
8
Aleksandra Chudina
URS
1.67
8
Gunhild Larking
SWE
1.67
Long Jump
1
Elzbieta Krzesinska
POL
6.35
2
Erika Fisch
FRG
6.19
3
Marga Weidner
FRG
6.15
3
Nadezhda Dvalishvili
URS
6.15
5
Sheila Hoskin
GBR
6.147
6
Galina Segen
URS
6.14
6
Lyudmila Radchenko
URS
6.14
8
Nancy Borwick
AUS
6.13
9
Galina Popova
URS
6.12
10
Thelma Hopkins
GBR
6.11
Shot Put
1
Galina Zybina
URS
16.76
2
Zinaida Doynikova
URS
16.60
3
Tamara Tishkevich
URS
16.59
4
Maria Kuznetsova
URS
15.79
5
Marianne Werner
FRG
15.61
6
Valerie Sloper
NZL
15.34
7
Earlene Brown
USA
15.25
8
Johanna Lüttge
GDR
15.15
9
Nadja Kotlusek
YUG
15.04
10
Wilfriede Tews
GDR
15.01
Discus Throw
1
Nina Ponomaryova
URS
54.76
2
Olga Fikotova
TCH
53.69
3
Irina Beglyakova
URS
52.71
4
Nina Dumbadze
URS
52.27
5
Jirina Voborilova
TCH
51.40
6
Earlene Brown
USA
51.35
7
Shi Bao-Chu
CHN
50.93
8
Stepanka Mertova
TCH
50.90
9
Tamara Press
URS
50.55
10
Albina Yelkina
URS
50.33
Javelin Throw
1
Ineze Jaunzeme
URS
53.86
2
Virve Roolaid
URS
53.32
3
Almut Brömmel
FRG
52.83
4
Erzsebeth Vigh
HUN
52.69
5
Dana Zátopková
TCH
52.24
6
Aleksandra Chudina
URS
52.16
7
Urszula Figwer
POL
51.95
8
Ingrid Almqvist
SWE
51.60
9
Yelena Gorchakova
URS
51.11
10
Lea Maremaae
URS
51.05
Pentathlon
1
Nina Vinogradova
URS
4767
2
Aleksandra Chudina
URS
4632
3
Nilya Besedina
URS
4570
4
Galina Bystrova
URS
4555
5
Sofia Burdulenko
URS
4548
6
Yevgeniya Gurvich
URS
4413
7
Galina Lukantsyeva
URS
4401
8
Klara Nikitinskaya
URS
4386
9
Maria Sturm
FRG
4361
10
Galina Akimova
URS
4360