| Date | 22 – 24 October 1968 — 08:30-17:00 | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Auditorio Nacional, Ciudad de México | |
| Participants | 95 from 16 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. | |
As in 1960 and 1964, Japan won this gold medal over the Soviet Union, winning quite easily. Japan won the team all-around gold medal at every Olympics from 1960-76, missing the 1980 Olympics because of the USA-led boycott. The German Democratic Republic (East) was the bronze medalist in Mexico City. The podium for this event was the same every year from 1964-76, as it had been at the 1966 World Championships.