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Date: 29 November 1956 / 30 November 1956
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Betty Cuthbert | AUS | 23.4 |
| 2 | Christa Stubnick | GER | 23.7 |
| 3 | Marlene Mathews | AUS | 23.8 |
| 4 | Norma Croker | AUS | 24.0 |
| 5 | June Paul | GBR | 24.3 |
| 6 | Gisela Kohler | GER | 24.3 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 7 | Maria Itkina | URS | 24.3 |
| 8 | Jean Scrivens | GBR | 24.4 |
| 9 | Heather Armitage | GBR | 24.7 |
| 10 | Mae Faggs | USA | 24.8 |
| 11 | Vera Iougova | URS | 24.9 |
| 12 | Barbara Lerczak | POL | 25.2 |
| Heats | |||
| 13 | Wilma Rudolph | USA | 24.6 |
| 14 | Inge Fuhrmann | GER | 24.7 |
| 15 | Micheline Fluchot | FRA | 24.9 |
| 16 | Genowefa Minicka | POL | 25.0 |
| 16 | Simone Henry | FRA | 25.0 |
| 18 | Letizia Bertoni | ITA | 25.2 |
| 19 | Eleanor Haslam | CAN | 25.3 |
| 19 | Olga Kocheleva | URS | 25.3 |
| 21 | Claudette Masdammer | GUY | 25.4 |
| 22 | Giuseppina Leone | ITA | 25.6 |
| 23 | Diane Matheson | CAN | 25.7 |
| 24 | Maureen Rever | CAN | 26.1 |
| 25 | Mary Klass | SIN | 26.3 |
| 25 | Meredith Ellis | USA | 26.3 |
| 27 | Maeve Kyle | IRL | 26.4 |