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.
Qualification
Sixty five 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.
References
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's vault Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA