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

The women's team portable apparatus competition was one of the events of the artistic gymnastics discipline contested in 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Poland
← 1952

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

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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

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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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