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

Women's team portable apparatus
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
   Hungary
   Sweden
   Soviet Union
   Poland
Gymnastics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-around   men   women
Team Portable
Apparatus
  women

Individual all-around men women
Vault men women
Floor men women
Pommel horse men
Rings men
Parallel bars men
Horizontal bar men
Uneven bars women
Balance beam women

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.

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.

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.

Final

Rank Country Apparatus Score
 Hungary (HUN)
Andrea Bodo
Karolyne Gulyas
Ágnes Keleti
Alice Kertesz
Margit Korondi
Olga Tass
Ribbon 75.200
 Sweden (SWE)
Karin Lindberg
Ann-Sofi Pettersson
Eva Rönström
Evy Berggren
Doris Hedberg
Maud Karlén
Ball 74.200
 Soviet Union (URS)
Polina Astakhova
Ludmila Egorova
Lidia Kalinina
Larisa Latynina
Tamara Manina
Sofia Muratova
74.000
 Poland (POL)
Helena Rakoczy
Natalia Kot
Danuta Nowak-Stachow
Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel
Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska
Lidia Szczerbińska
Hoop 74.000
5  Romania (ROU)
Georgeta Hurmuzachi
Sonia Iovan
Elena Leuşteanu
Elena Mărgărit
Elena Săcălici
Emilia Vătăşoiu
73.400
6  Japan (JPN)
Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda
Mitsuka Ikeda
Kazuko Sogabe
Shizuko Sakashita
Kyoko Kubota
Suzuko Seki
73.200
7  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Eva Bosáková
Anna Marejková
Matylda Šínová-Matoušková
Věra Drazdíková
Alena Reichová
Miroslava Brdíčková
73.000
8  Italy (ITA)
Miranda Cicognani
Luciana Reali
Rosella Cicognani
Elisa Calsi
Elena Lagorara
Luciana Lagorara
72.800
9  United States (USA)
Sandra Ruddick
Muriel Davis-Grossfeld
Joyce Racek
Jacquelyn Klein
Doris Fuchs
Judy Howe
67.600

References

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