| Date | 3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-14:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria | |
| Participants | 54 from 9 countries | |
| Format | Six-person teams. Each gymnast to perform a compulsory and an optional exercise on all four apparatuses. Top five scores per team on each of the eight exercises count towards the team score. Team score for portable apparatus added to individual apparatus scores. | |
The Soviet women had won the gold medal at Helsinki in 1952, which started a trend. They would win gold in the women’s team all-around at every Olympics from 1952-80, missing out only because of the 1984 boycott, and would then win again in 1988, and in 1992 as the Unified Team. Hungary won silver in 1956 as they had in 1952, with Romania winning their first team medal in women’s gymnastics, a bronze.
| Pos | Competitors | NOC | Points | Individual Points | Portable Apparatus Points | Compulsory Points | Optional Points | Floor Exercise | Vault | Uneven Bars | Balance Beam | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union |  URS | 444.787 | 370.787 | 74.000 | 184.628 | 186.159 | 92.895 (1) | 92.797 (1) | 92.865 (2) | 92.230 (1) | Gold | 1 | |
| Larisa Latynina | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | ||||
| Sofya Muratova | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | ||||
| Tamara Manina | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | ||||
| Lyudmila Yegorova | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5 | ||||
| Polina Astakhova | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | ||||
| Lidiya Kalinina | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | ||||
| Raisa Borisova DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Genriyetta Konovalova DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 2 | Hungary |  HUN | 443.484 | 368.284 | 75.200 | 183.491 | 184.793 | 91.695 (3) | 91.263 (4) | 93.130 (1) | 92.196 (2) | Silver | 8 | |
| Ágnes Keleti | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | ||||
| Olga Tass-Lemhényi | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | ||||
| Margit Korondi | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11 | ||||
| Andrea Bodó-Molnár | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12 | ||||
| Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | ||||
| Alíz Kertész | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14 | ||||
| Márta Nagy DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 3 | Romania |  ROU | 438.185 | 364.785 | 73.400 | 181.926 | 182.859 | 91.761 (2) | 91.430 (3) | 91.063 (5) | 90.531 (3) | Bronze | 15 | |
| Elena Leuştean | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16 | ||||
| Sonia Inovan | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 17 | ||||
| Georgeta Hurmuzachi | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18 | ||||
| Emilia Vătăşoiu | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 19 | ||||
| Elena Mărgărit | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 20 | ||||
| Elena Săcălici | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 21 | ||||
| Maria Petrescu DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Uta Schlandt DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 4 | Poland |  POL | 436.485 | 362.485 | 74.000 | 180.359 | 182.126 | 90.264 (7) | 90.863 (6) | 91.928 (3) | 89.430 (6) | 22 | ||
| Helena Rakoczy | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 23 | ||||
| Natalia Kot | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 24 | ||||
| Danuta Nowak-Stachow | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 25 | ||||
| Dorota Jokiel | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 26 | ||||
| Barbara Ślizowska | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 27 | ||||
| Lidia Szczerbińska | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 28 | ||||
| Stefania Wasilewska DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 5 | Czechoslovakia |  TCH | 435.356 | 362.356 | 73.000 | 180.897 | 181.459 | 90.463 (6) | 90.464 (7) | 91.264 (4) | 90.165 (4) | |||
| Eva Bosáková-Věchtová | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Anna Marejková | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Matylda Šínová | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Věra Drazdíková | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Alena Reichová | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Miroslava Brdíčková | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Vlasta Janeková DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Věra Věra Rylicková DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 6 | Japan |  JPN | 433.653 | 360.453 | 73.200 | 179.893 | 180.560 | 91.130 (4) | 89.930 (8) | 89.463 (6) | 89.930 (5) | |||
| Keiko Tanaka | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Mitsuka Ikeda | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Kazuko Sogabe | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Shizuko Sakashita | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Kyoko Kubota | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Suzuko Seki | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 7 | Italy |  ITA | 428.654 | 355.854 | 72.800 | 175.894 | 179.960 | 88.997 (8) | 90.897 (5) | 88.297 (7) | 87.663 (7) | |||
| Miranda Cicognani | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Luciana Reali | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Rosella Cicognani | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Elisa Calsi | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Elena Lagorara | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Luciana Lagorara | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Gabriella Santarelli DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Maria Storici DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 8 | Sweden |  SWE | 428.587 | 354.387 | 74.200 | 174.360 | 180.027 | 90.897 (5) | 91.664 (2) | 86.064 (8) | 85.762 (8) | 29 | ||
| Ann-Sofi Colling | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 30 | ||||
| Eva Rönström | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 31 | ||||
| Doris Hedberg | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 32 | ||||
| Karin Lindberg | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 33 | ||||
| Evy Berggren | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 34 | ||||
| Maude Karlén | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 35 | ||||
| Hjördis Nordin DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 9 | United States |  USA | 413.187 | 345.587 | 67.600 | 173.894 | 171.693 | 88.730 (9) | 88.096 (9) | 84.398 (9) | 84.363 (9) | 36 | ||
| Sandra Ruddick | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 37 | ||||
| Muriel Davis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 38 | ||||
| Joyce Racek | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 39 | ||||
| Jackie Klein | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 40 | ||||
| Doris Fuchs | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 41 | ||||
| Judy Howe | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 42 | ||||
| Ingeborg Fuchs DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
