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

Women's team portable apparatus at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	West Melbourne Stadium
Date	3–7 December
Competitors	54 from 9 nations
Medalists
Andrea Molnár-Bodó Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles 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

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.

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.

• Ball
• Ribbon
• Hoop
• Clubs
• Rope

Results

Rank	Nation	Gymnasts	Apparatus	Score
	Hungary	Andrea Molnár-Bodó Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertesz Margit Korondi Olga Tass	Ribbon	75.200
	Sweden	Karin Lindberg Ann-Sofi Pettersson Eva Rönström Evy Berggren Doris Hedberg Maud Karlén	Ball	74.200
	Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova Ludmila Egorova Lidia Kalinina Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova		74.000
	Poland	Helena Rakoczy Natalia Kot Danuta Nowak-Stachow Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska Lidia Szczerbińska	Hoop	74.000
5	Romania	Georgeta Hurmuzachi Sonia Iovan Elena Leuşteanu Elena Mărgărit Elena Săcălici Emilia Vătăşoiu		73.400
6	Japan	Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda Mitsuka Ikeda Kazuko Sogabe Shizuko Sakashita Kyoko Kubota Suzuko Seki		73.200
7	Czechoslovakia	Eva Bosáková Anna Marejková Matylda Matoušková-Šínová Věra Drazdíková Alena Reichová Miroslava Brdíčková		73.000
8	Italy	Miranda Cicognani Luciana Reali Rosella Cicognani Elisa Calsi Elena Lagorara Luciana Lagorara		72.800
9	United States	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