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Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic team all-around

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Men's artistic team all-around
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
VenueWest Melbourne Stadium
Date3–7 December
Competitors42 from 7 nations
Winning score568.25
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Finland
← 1952
1960 →

The men's artistic team all-around competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics was held at the West Melbourne Stadium from 3 to 7 December. It was the eleventh appearance of the event.[1]

Competition format

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The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format, mostly following the scoring tweaks made in 1952. Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts (two alternates could be entered—in 1952, all eight gymnasts competed). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The top five individual scores in each exercise (that is, compulsory floor, voluntary floor, compulsory vault, etc.) were added to give a team score for that exercise. The 12 team exercise scores were summed to give a team total.

No separate finals were contested.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, apparatus scores from 0 to 20, individual totals from 0 to 120, and team scores from 0 to 600.

Results

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Rank Nation Gymnasts Exercise results Team total
C V C V C V C V C V C V
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Soviet Union Albert Azaryan 8.90 9.05 9.55 9.80 9.25 9.50 9.15 9.40 9.30 9.70 9.40 9.55 568.25
Viktor Chukarin 9.55 9.55 9.40 9.60 9.50 9.60 9.25 9.35 9.55 9.65 9.55 9.70
Valentin Muratov 9.60 9.60 9.60 9.55 9.45 9.35 9.40 9.45 9.30 9.40 9.55 9.05
Boris Shakhlin 8.95 9.30 9.35 9.35 9.50 9.75 9.35 9.35 9.30 9.55 9.30 9.45
Pavel Stolbov 9.15 9.35 9.40 9.40 9.40 9.50 9.10 9.25 8.55 9.40 9.55 9.70
Yury Titov 9.50 9.45 9.40 9.45 9.45 9.55 9.35 9.40 9.40 9.45 9.70 9.70
Total 46.75 47.25 47.35 47.80 47.30 47.90 46.50 46.95 46.85 47.75 47.75 48.10
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Japan Nobuyuki Aihara 9.50 9.60 9.55 9.50 9.35 9.40 9.20 8.90 9.35 9.55 9.30 9.25 566.40
Akira Kono 9.40 9.10 9.40 9.30 9.00 9.60 9.00 9.30 9.40 9.30 9.30 9.45
Masami Kubota 9.30 9.40 9.60 9.50 9.35 9.30 9.25 9.05 9.55 9.60 9.20 9.40
Takashi Ono 9.40 9.35 9.50 9.55 9.50 9.70 9.20 9.30 9.60 9.50 9.75 9.85
Masao Takemoto 9.00 9.50 9.60 9.50 9.45 9.45 9.20 9.45 9.40 9.70 9.70 9.60
Shinsaku Tsukawaki 9.30 9.40 9.50 9.50 9.20 9.25 9.20 9.25 9.45 9.40 9.30 9.45
Total 46.90 47.25 47.75 47.55 46.85 47.45 46.05 46.35 47.40 47.75 47.35 47.75
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Finland Raimo Heinonen 8.60 9.15 7.85 8.90 8.90 9.25 9.05 9.05 9.20 9.45 9.25 9.45 555.95
Onni Lappalainen 9.20 9.30 8.95 9.20 9.05 9.40 9.00 9.25 9.30 9.55 9.00 9.25
Olavi Leimuvirta 8.95 9.20 8.75 8.40 9.35 9.30 9.10 9.30 9.20 9.65 8.95 9.20
Berndt Lindfors 9.05 9.45 9.45 9.40 9.45 9.35 8.80 9.10 9.45 9.45 9.20 9.45
Martti Mansikka 9.30 9.40 9.15 9.05 9.30 9.35 9.20 9.35 9.15 9.35 8.90 9.10
Kalevi Suoniemi 9.35 9.35 9.30 9.50 9.35 9.45 9.15 9.40 9.25 9.55 9.25 9.45
Total 45.85 46.70 45.60 46.05 46.50 46.85 45.50 46.40 46.40 47.65 45.65 46.80
4  Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Bím 7.90 8.70 8.90 9.20 9.35 9.60 9.00 9.00 9.15 9.10 9.05 9.30 554.10
Ferdinand Daniš 9.40 9.40 9.45 9.45 9.40 8.85 9.30 9.10 9.40 9.30 9.45 9.40
Vladimír Kejř 9.10 9.30 9.30 9.20 9.15 9.10 9.10 9.45 9.15 9.15 9.20 9.10
Jaroslav Mikoška 9.10 9.10 8.75 8.90 9.35 8.75 9.20 9.20 9.35 9.35 9.35 8.95
Zdeněk Růžička 9.00 9.20 9.10 9.20 9.15 8.70 9.10 9.10 9.00 9.30 9.45 9.35
Josef Škvor 8.90 9.10 9.15 9.05 9.45 9.60 9.20 9.25 9.20 9.25 9.20 9.50
Total 45.50 46.10 45.90 46.10 46.70 45.90 45.90 46.10 46.25 46.35 46.65 46.65
5  United Team of Germany Helmut Bantz 9.35 9.40 9.25 9.35 9.35 9.40 9.40 9.45 9.45 9.35 9.50 9.65 552.45
Jakob Kiefer 8.85 9.15 8.35 8.15 9.20 8.85 9.30 9.30 9.20 8.45 9.25 9.40
Robert Klein 9.30 9.20 9.40 9.35 8.95 9.05 9.30 9.30 9.20 9.10 9.25 9.20
Hans Pfann 8.85 9.30 9.10 9.10 9.25 8.95 9.05 9.25 9.30 9.25 8.55 9.20
Erich Wied 8.60 9.20 8.70 8.95 8.60 8.70 9.20 9.30 9.00 9.10 8.65 9.50
Theo Wied 9.20 9.20 9.05 8.75 8.90 9.05 9.30 9.40 9.15 9.20 9.25 9.45
Total 45.55 46.30 45.50 45.50 45.65 45.30 46.50 46.75 46.30 46.00 45.90 47.20
6  United States Dick Beckner 8.85 9.05 9.35 9.30 8.70 8.80 8.85 9.20 8.55 9.20 9.10 9.35 547.50
Jack Beckner 9.25 9.25 8.70 9.05 9.30 9.10 9.25 9.35 9.40 9.35 9.40 9.60
Abie Grossfeld 9.10 9.30 9.20 8.30 8.65 8.65 8.85 9.10 8.75 9.10 9.35 9.40
Charles Simms 8.55 8.70 8.70 8.80 9.35 8.80 9.15 9.30 9.10 9.30 9.20 9.45
Bill Tom 9.00 9.20 8.10 8.75 8.60 9.15 9.10 9.25 9.05 9.30 8.80 9.05
Armando Vega 9.20 9.40 9.05 9.40 8.60 8.75 9.10 9.30 8.10 9.50 9.15 8.90
Total 45.40 46.20 45.00 45.30 44.60 44.60 45.45 46.40 44.85 46.65 46.20 46.85
7  Australia Brian Blackburn 8.85 9.05 7.50 7.05 5.00 7.10 9.00 8.95 8.45 7.25 8.20 5.00 477.15
Graham Bond 7.65 8.00 7.00 7.85 6.95 7.00 9.00 8.80 8.15 8.35 8.90 8.75
David Gourlay 8.25 8.00 7.55 7.90 7.50 7.20 9.00 9.05 7.80 7.65 8.10 7.90
John Lees 7.25 7.50 7.95 8.45 7.70 7.85 7.50 8.90 8.00 8.15 7.70 6.10
Noel Punton 8.55 8.50 6.80 7.55 5.50 7.10 9.05 8.85 7.70 7.65 4.50 4.00
Bruce Sharp 8.80 8.80 8.10 7.85 5.65 4.95 9.25 9.10 8.20 8.30 7.30 6.65
Total 42.10 42.35 38.10 39.60 33.30 36.25 45.30 44.85 40.60 40.10 40.20 34.40

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Team All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2019.