| Date | 1 – 2 August 1996 |
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| Status | Olympic |
| Location | Georgia Coliseum, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia |
| Participants | 53 from 9 countries |
The group event consisted of the use of a ball and club in the qualifying round and the hoop and ball in the final. The event was supposed to consist of the top eight teams from the 1995 World Championships, but China placed a surprising ninth at that event, so the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) expanded the Olympic field to nine teams. At the 1995 World, the medals had gone to Russia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, in that order, with Spain fifth. But in Atlanta, Russia did not threaten for the gold medal. Bulgaria led after the qualifying round but Spain narrowly won the gold medal with their finals performance.
| Date | 1 August 1996 |
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| Format | Top 6 teams advanced to the final round. |
| Date | 2 August 1996 — 14:25 |
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| Pos | Number | Competitors | NOC | Points | Hoop | Ball/Ribbon | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Spain |  ESP | 38.933 | 19.483 (1) | 19.450 (=1) | |||||
| Marta Baldó • Núria Cabanillas • Estela Giménez • Lorena Guréndez • Tania Lamarca • Estíbaliz Martínez | |||||||||||
| 2 | – | Bulgaria |  BUL | 38.866 | 19.416 (3) | 19.450 (=1) | |||||
| Ina Delcheva • Valentina Kevliyan • Mariya Koleva • Maya Tabakova • Ivelina Taleva • Vyara Vatashka | |||||||||||
| 3 | – | Russian Federation |  RUS | 38.365 | 19.466 (2) | 18.899 (4) | |||||
| Yevgeniya Bochkaryova • Olga Shtyrenko • Irina Dzyuba • Angelina Yushkova • Yuliya Ivanova • Yelena Krivoshey | |||||||||||
| 4 | – | France |  FRA | 38.199 | 19.149 (6) | 19.050 (3) | |||||
| Charlotte Camboulives • Caroline Chimot • Sylvie Didone • Audrey Grosclaude • Frédérique Léhon • Nadia Mimoun | |||||||||||
| 5 | – | People's Republic of China |  CHN | 37.999 | 19.199 (5) | 18.800 (5) | |||||
| Cai Yingying • Huang Ting • Huang Ying • Zheng Ni • Zhong Li | |||||||||||
| 6 | – | Belarus |  BLR | 37.982 | 19.266 (4) | 18.716 (6) | |||||
| Natallia Budilo • Volha Demskaya • Aksana Zhdanovich • Sviatlana Luzanova • Halina Malashenka • Alesia Pokhodina | |||||||||||
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