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Team All-Around, Women

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
1	Soviet Union	URS	444.787	370.787	74.000	184.628	186.159	Gold	1
	Larisa Latynina		–	–	–	–	–		2
	Sofya Muratova		–	–	–	–	–		3
	Tamara Manina		–	–	–	–	–		4
	Lyudmila Yegorova		–	–	–	–	–		5
	Polina Astakhova		–	–	–	–	–		6
	Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova		–	–	–	–	–		7
	Raissa Borissova DNS		–	–	–	–	–
	Genrietta Konovalova DNS		–	–	–	–	–
2	Hungary	HUN	443.484	368.284	75.200	183.491	184.793	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	Bronze	15
	Elena Leuștean-Popescu		–	–	–	–	–		16
	Sonia Inovan-Iovan		–	–	–	–	–		17
	Georgeta Hurmuzachi		–	–	–	–	–		18
	Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță		–	–	–	–	–		19
	Elena Mărgărit-Niculeșcu		–	–	–	–	–		20
	Elena Săcălici		–	–	–	–	–		21
	Maria Petrescu DNS		–	–	–	–	–
	Uta Schlandt-Poreceanu DNS		–	–	–	–	–
4	Poland	POL	436.485	362.485	74.000	180.359	182.126		22
	Helena Rakoczy		–	–	–	–	–		23
	Natalia Kot		–	–	–	–	–		24
	Danuta Nowak-Stachow		–	–	–	–	–		25
	Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel		–	–	–	–	–		26
	Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska		–	–	–	–	–		27
	Lidia Szczerbińska		–	–	–	–	–		28
	Stefania Wasilewska DNS		–	–	–	–	–
5	Czechoslovakia	TCH	435.356	362.356	73.000	180.897	181.459
	Eva Bosáková-Věchtová		–	–	–	–	–
	Anna Marejková		–	–	–	–	–
	Matylda Matoušková-Šínová		–	–	–	–	–
	Věra Drazdíková		–	–	–	–	–
	Alena Reichová		–	–	–	–	–
	Miroslava Brdíčková		–	–	–	–	–
	Vlasta Janeková DNS		–	–	–	–	–
	Věra Rylichová DNS		–	–	–	–	–
6	Japan	JPN	433.653	360.453	73.200	179.893	180.560
	Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda		–	–	–	–	–
	Mitsuka Ikeda		–	–	–	–	–
	Kazuko Sogabe		–	–	–	–	–
	Shizuko Sakashita		–	–	–	–	–
	Kyoko Kubota		–	–	–	–	–
	Suzuko Seki		–	–	–	–	–
7	Italy	ITA	428.654	355.854	72.800	175.894	179.960
	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		29
	Ann-Sofi Pettersson-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		36
	Sandra Ruddick		–	–	–	–	–		37
	Muriel Davis-Grossfeld		–	–	–	–	–		38
	Joyce Racek		–	–	–	–	–		39
	Jackie Klein		–	–	–	–	–		40
	Doris Fuchs		–	–	–	–	–		41
	Judy Howe		–	–	–	–	–		42
	Ingeborg Fuchs DNS		–	–	–	–	–

Floor Exercise

Date	3 – 7 December 1956

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Points	Compulsory Points	Optional Points
1	Soviet Union	URS	92.895	46.198	46.697
2	Romania	ROU	91.761	45.897	45.864
3	Hungary	HUN	91.695	45.797	45.898
4	Japan	JPN	91.130	45.432	45.698
5	Sweden	SWE	90.897	45.498	45.399
6	Czechoslovakia	TCH	90.463	45.399	45.064
7	Poland	POL	90.264	44.732	45.532
8	Italy	ITA	88.997	43.965	45.032
9	United States	USA	88.730	44.832	43.898

Horse Vault

Date	3 – 7 December 1956

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Points	Compulsory Points	Optional Points
1	Soviet Union	URS	92.797	46.799	45.998
2	Sweden	SWE	91.664	45.599	46.065
3	Romania	ROU	91.430	45.165	46.265
4	Hungary	HUN	91.263	44.831	46.432
5	Italy	ITA	90.897	44.532	46.365
6	Poland	POL	90.863	45.698	45.165
7	Czechoslovakia	TCH	90.464	45.166	45.298
8	Japan	JPN	89.930	45.132	44.798
9	United States	USA	88.096	44.065	44.031

Uneven Bars

Date	3 – 7 December 1956

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Points	Compulsory Points	Optional Points
1	Hungary	HUN	93.130	46.565	46.565
2	Soviet Union	URS	92.865	45.766	47.099
3	Poland	POL	91.928	45.397	46.531
4	Czechoslovakia	TCH	91.264	45.566	45.698
5	Romania	ROU	91.063	45.465	45.598
6	Japan	JPN	89.463	43.898	45.565
7	Italy	ITA	88.297	43.465	44.832
8	Sweden	SWE	86.064	41.732	44.332
9	United States	USA	84.398	42.599	41.799

Balance Beam

Date	3 – 7 December 1956

Pos	Competitors	NOC	Points	Compulsory Points	Optional Points
1	Soviet Union	URS	92.230	45.865	46.365
2	Hungary	HUN	92.196	46.298	45.898
3	Romania	ROU	90.531	45.399	45.132
4	Czechoslovakia	TCH	90.165	44.766	45.399
5	Japan	JPN	89.930	45.431	44.499
6	Poland	POL	89.430	44.532	44.898
7	Italy	ITA	87.663	43.932	43.731
8	Sweden	SWE	85.762	41.531	44.231
9	United States	USA	84.363	42.398	41.965