Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's high jump

Women's high jump at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Competitors	19 from 12 nations
Winning height	1.76 WR
Medalists
Mildred McDaniel  United States Thelma Hopkins  Great Britain Mariya Pisareva  Soviet Union
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Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men
v t e

The women's high jump was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualification round mark was set at 1.58 metres. Just one athlete, Ann Marie Flynn from the United States, did not surpass that height in the morning qualification round.^[1]

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	HEIGHT
	Mildred McDaniel (USA)	1.76 m
	Thelma Hopkins (GBR)	1.67 m
	Mariya Pisareva (URS)	1.67 m
4.	Gunhild Larking (SWE)	1.67 m
5.	Iolanda Balaș (ROU)	1.67 m
6.	Michele Mason (AUS)	1.67 m
7.	Mary Donaghy (NZL)	1.67 m
8=.	Hermina Geyser (RSA)	1.64 m
8=.	Jiřina Vobořilová (TCH)	1.64 m
10.	Olga Modrachová (TCH)	1.64 m
11.	Valentina Ballod (URS)	1.60 m
12=.	Reinelde Knapp (AUT)	1.60 m
12=.	Dorothy Tyler (GBR)	1.60 m
14.	Carole Bernoth (AUS)	1.60 m
15.	Janice Cooper (AUS)	1.55 m
16=.	Audrey Bennett (GBR)	1.55 m
16=.	Alice Whitty (CAN)	1.55 m
18.	Inge Kilian (EUA)	1.55 m
19(DNQ).	Ann Marie Flynn (USA)	1.50 m

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