| | Event type
Team All-Around, Men
| Date | 3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-16:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Participants | 42 from 7 countries | |
| Format | Six-person teams. Each gymnast to perform a compulsory and an optional exercise on all six apparatuses. Top five scores per team on each of the 12 exercises count towards the team score. | |
This was a relatively close contest between the Soviet Union and Japan. The Soviets were the defending champions and were led by Viktor Chukarin, individual all-around gold medalist in both 1952 and 1956, and had comfortably defeated the Japanese at the 1954 World Championships. The Soviets prevailed over Japan by slightly less than two points, but this would be the last Olympic team victory by the Soviet men until the 1980 Olympics, as Japan would win the team gold medal at the next five Olympics.
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CP | OP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union |  URS | 568.25 | 282.50 | 285.75 | Gold | ||
| Viktor Chukarin | – | – | – | |||||
| Yury Titov | – | – | – | |||||
| Valentin Muratov | – | – | – | |||||
| Albert Azaryan | – | – | – | |||||
| Boris Shakhlin | – | – | – | |||||
| Pavel Stolbov | – | – | – | |||||
| 2 | Japan |  JPN | 566.40 | 282.30 | 284.10 | Silver | ||
| Takashi Ono | – | – | – | |||||
| Masao Takemoto | – | – | – | |||||
| Masami Kubota | – | – | – | |||||
| Nobuyuki Aihara | – | – | – | |||||
| Shinsaku Tsukawaki | – | – | – | |||||
| Akira Kono | – | – | – | |||||
| 3 | Finland |  FIN | 555.95 | 275.50 | 280.45 | Bronze | ||
| Kalevi Suoniemi | – | – | – | |||||
| Berndt Lindfors | – | – | – | |||||
| Martti Mansikka | – | – | – | |||||
| Onni Lappalainen | – | – | – | |||||
| Olavi Leimuvirta | – | – | – | |||||
| Raimo Heinonen | – | – | – | |||||
| 4 | Czechoslovakia |  TCH | 554.10 | 276.90 | 277.20 | |||
| Ferdinand Daniš | – | – | – | |||||
| Josef Škvor | – | – | – | |||||
| Vladimír Kejř | – | – | – | |||||
| Zdeněk Růžička | – | – | – | |||||
| Jaroslav Mikoška | – | – | – | |||||
| Jaroslav Bím | – | – | – | |||||
| 5 | Unified Team of Germany |  GER | 552.45 | 275.40 | 277.05 | |||
| Helmut Bantz | – | – | – | |||||
| Robert Klein | – | – | – | |||||
| Theo Wied | – | – | – | |||||
| Hans Pfann | – | – | – | |||||
| Erich Wied | – | – | – | |||||
| Jakob Kiefer | – | – | – | |||||
| 6 | United States |  USA | 547.50 | 271.50 | 276.00 | |||
| Jack Beckner | – | – | – | |||||
| Armando Vega | – | – | – | |||||
| Charles Simms | – | – | – | |||||
| Dick Beckner | – | – | – | |||||
| Abie Grossfeld | – | – | – | |||||
| Bill Tom | – | – | – | |||||
| 7 | Australia |  AUS | 477.15 | 239.60 | 237.55 | |||
| Graham Bond | – | – | – | |||||
| David Gourlay | – | – | – | |||||
| John Lees | – | – | – | |||||
| Bruce Sharp | – | – | – | |||||
| Brian Blackburn | – | – | – | |||||
| Noel Punton | – | – | – |
Floor Exercise (3 – 7 December 1956)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CP | OP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | JPN | 94.15 | 46.90 | 47.25 | |||
| 2 | Soviet Union | URS | 94.00 | 46.75 | 47.25 | |||
| 3 | Finland | FIN | 92.55 | 45.85 | 46.70 | |||
| 4 | Unified Team of Germany | GER | 91.85 | 45.55 | 46.30 | |||
| =5 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 91.60 | 45.50 | 46.10 | |||
| =5 | United States | USA | 91.60 | 45.40 | 46.20 | |||
| 7 | Australia | AUS | 84.45 | 42.10 | 42.35 |
Horse Vault (3 – 7 December 1956)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CP | OP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | URS | 93.45 | 46.50 | 46.95 | |||
| 2 | Unified Team of Germany | GER | 93.25 | 46.50 | 46.75 | |||
| 3 | Japan | JPN | 92.40 | 46.05 | 46.35 | |||
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 92.00 | 45.90 | 46.10 | |||
| 5 | Finland | FIN | 91.90 | 45.50 | 46.40 | |||
| 6 | United States | USA | 91.85 | 45.45 | 46.40 | |||
| 7 | Australia | AUS | 90.15 | 45.30 | 44.85 |
Parallel Bars (3 – 7 December 1956)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CP | OP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | JPN | 95.15 | 47.40 | 47.75 | |||
| 2 | Soviet Union | URS | 94.60 | 46.85 | 47.75 | |||
| 3 | Finland | FIN | 94.05 | 46.40 | 47.65 | |||
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 92.60 | 46.25 | 46.35 | |||
| 5 | Unified Team of Germany | GER | 92.30 | 46.30 | 46.00 | |||
| 6 | United States | USA | 91.50 | 44.85 | 46.65 | |||
| 7 | Australia | AUS | 80.70 | 40.60 | 40.10 |
Horizontal Bar (3 – 7 December 1956)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CP | OP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | URS | 95.85 | 47.75 | 48.10 | |||
| 2 | Japan | JPN | 95.10 | 47.35 | 47.75 | |||
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 93.30 | 46.65 | 46.65 | |||
| 4 | Unified Team of Germany | GER | 93.10 | 45.90 | 47.20 | |||
| 5 | United States | USA | 93.05 | 46.20 | 46.85 | |||
| 6 | Finland | FIN | 92.45 | 45.65 | 46.80 | |||
| 7 | Australia | AUS | 74.60 | 40.20 | 34.40 |
Rings (3 – 7 December 1956)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CP | OP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | JPN | 95.30 | 47.75 | 47.55 | |||
| 2 | Soviet Union | URS | 95.15 | 47.35 | 47.80 | |||
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 92.00 | 45.90 | 46.10 | |||
| 4 | Finland | FIN | 91.65 | 45.60 | 46.05 | |||
| 5 | Unified Team of Germany | GER | 91.00 | 45.50 | 45.50 | |||
| 6 | United States | USA | 90.30 | 45.00 | 45.30 | |||
| 7 | Australia | AUS | 77.70 | 38.10 | 39.60 |
Pommelled Horse (3 – 7 December 1956)
| Pos | Competitor(s) | NOC | Points | CP | OP | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | URS | 95.20 | 47.30 | 47.90 | |||
| 2 | Japan | JPN | 94.30 | 46.85 | 47.45 | |||
| 3 | Finland | FIN | 93.35 | 46.50 | 46.85 | |||
| 4 | Czechoslovakia | TCH | 92.60 | 46.70 | 45.90 | |||
| 5 | Unified Team of Germany | GER | 90.95 | 45.65 | 45.30 | |||
| 6 | United States | USA | 89.20 | 44.60 | 44.60 | |||
| 7 | Australia | AUS | 69.55 | 33.30 | 36.25 |