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

Women's team portable apparatus at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
Andrea Bodo Karolyne Gulyas Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertesz Margit Korondi Olga Tass  Hungary Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Eva Rönström Evy Berggren Doris Hedberg Maud Karlén  Sweden Polina Astakhova Ludmila Egorova Lidia Kalinina Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union Helena Rakoczy Natalia Kot Danuta Nowak-Stachow Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska Lidia Szczerbińska  Poland

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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.

• Ball
• Ribbon
• Hoop
• Clubs
• Rope

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

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net