Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's team portable apparatus

These are the results of the Women's team portable apparatus competition, one of the events of the artistic gymnastics discipline contested in the gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The portable apparatus would eventually be removed from the Women's Artistic Gymnastics competition.

Women's team portable apparatus
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueWest Melbourne Stadium
Date3–7 December
Competitors54 from 9 nations
Medalists
  Hungary
  Sweden
  Soviet Union
  Poland
Gymnastics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-aroundmenwomen
Team Portable
Apparatus		women
Individual all-aroundmenwomen
Vaultmenwomen
Floormenwomen
Pommel horsemen
Ringsmen
Parallel barsmen
Horizontal barmen
Uneven barswomen
Balance beamwomen

From the official Report of the 1956 Summer Olympics:

Probably the most popular and spectacular item was the women's gymnastics team exercises with portable apparatus and music. It was a spectacle of controlled rhythm and concerted movement that has never been seen in Australia before. Hungary was the noteworthy winner, but public acclaim calls for mention of Sweden (second) and Rumania, with their exciting and unforgettable music and costumes.

The event would be the foundation for rhythmic gymnastics, which would debut at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Apparatus

Each team had to perform with an apparatus. The following were used in the 1956 competition. The scores would be added to the final team score.

Results
Rank Nation Gymnasts Apparatus Score
 Hungary
Ribbon 75.200
 Sweden
Ball 74.200
 Soviet Union
74.000
 Poland
Hoop 74.000
5  Romania
73.400
6  Japan
73.200
7  Czechoslovakia
73.000
8  Italy
72.800
9  United States
67.600

References
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