Women's artistic team all-around at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	West Melbourne Stadium
Date	3–7 December
Competitors	54 from 9 nations
Winning score	444.80
Medalists
Polina Astakhova Lyudmila Yegorova Lidiya Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union Andrea Molnár-Bodó Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertész Margit Korondi Olga Tass  Hungary Georgeta Hurmuzachi Sonia Iovan Elena Leușteanu Elena Mărgărit Elena Săcălici Emilia Vătășoiu  Romania

The women'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 fifth appearance of the event in the Olympics.^[1]

Competition format

Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts (with up to two alternates). All entrants 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 eight team exercise scores were summed, along with the team portable apparatus event score, 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 80, team exercise scores from 0 to 50, portable apparatus scores from 0 to 80, and team total scores from 0 to 480.

Results

The Soviet team won the gold medal, the Hungarian team won the silver, and the Romanian team won the bronze.^[2]

Rank	Nation	Gymnasts	Exercise results								Team portable apparatus	Team total
			C	V	C	V	C	V	C	V
	Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova	9.166	9.233	9.066	9.100	9.200	9.366	8.733	8.833	74.00	448.80
		Lidiya Ivanova	9.266	9.166	8.900	9.100	9.033	9.233	9.200	8.133
		Larisa Latynina	9.266	9.466	9.300	9.233	9.233	9.600	9.433	9.400
		Tamara Manina	9.200	9.266	9.233	9.400	9.000	9.333	9.466	9.333
		Sofia Muratova	9.300	9.266	9.166	9.266	9.300	9.500	9.500	9.166
		Lyudmila Yegorova	9.000	9.466	9.100	9.366	8.833	9.300	9.200	9.266
		Total	46.198	46.697	45.865	46.365	45.766	47.099	46.799	45.998
	Hungary	Andrea Molnár-Bodó	9.166	8.933	9.066	9.066	9.233	9.166	9.066	9.200	75.20	443.50
		Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles	8.966	9.100	9.066	9.033	9.000	9.133	8.866	9.033
		Ágnes Keleti	9.266	9.466	9.433	9.366	9.533	9.433	8.833	9.300
		Alice Kertész	9.066	8.966	9.300	8.666	9.333	9.300	8.766	–
		Margit Korondi	9.033	9.100	9.266	9.200	9.100	9.400	8.900	9.333
		Olga Tass	9.266	9.266	9.233	9.233	9.366	9.266	9.166	9.566
		Total	45.797	45.898	46.298	45.898	46.565	46.565	44.831	46.432
	Romania	Georgeta Hurmuzachi	9.266	9.166	8.933	8.833	9.033	9.233	8.966	9.300	73.40	438.20
		Sonia Iovan	9.133	9.066	9.100	9.166	9.100	9.066	9.100	9.166
		Elena Leușteanu	9.266	9.433	9.300	9.200	9.466	9.066	9.266	9.366
		Elena Mărgărit	9.166	9.166	8.833	8.800	8.833	9.100	8.933	9.200
		Elena Săcălici	9.066	9.033	8.966	8.333	8.900	9.033	8.866	9.233
		Emilia Vătășoiu	8.833	8.866	9.100	9.133	8.966	9.133	8.900	9.166
		Total	45.897	45.864	45.399	45.132	45.465	45.598	45.165	46.265
4	Poland	Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel	8.333	9.033	8.833	9.033	8.966	9.233	9.133	9.100	74.00	436.50
		Natalia Kot	9.133	9.233	9.100	9.066	9.266	9.333	9.333	9.166
		Danuta Nowak-Stachow	8.700	9.133	8.633	8.933	9.166	9.366	8.966	8.900
		Helena Rakoczy	9.133	9.233	9.033	9.100	9.166	9.533	9.233	9.266
		Lidia Szczerbińska	8.833	8.900	8.866	8.766	8.433	8.766	9.033	8.700
		Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska	8.933	8.800	8.700	8.633	8.833	9.066	8.833	8.733
		Total	44.732	45.532	44.532	44.898	45.397	46.531	45.698	45.165
5	Czechoslovakia	Eva Bosáková	9.233	9.333	9.300	9.333	9.400	9.333	9.000	9.166	73.00	435.356
		Miroslava Brdíčková	8.766	8.766	8.800	8.766	8.966	9.033	8.866	8.866
		Věra Drazdíková	9.033	8.866	8.766	9.033	8.733	9.033	9.000	8.866
		Anna Marejková	9.200	9.166	9.300	9.233	9.100	9.266	9.133	9.100
		Matylda Matoušková-Šínová	9.000	8.933	8.566	8.900	9.200	9.000	9.033	9.166
		Alena Reichová	8.933	8.500	8.600	8.900	8.900	9.033	9.000	9.000
		Total	45.399	45.064	44.766	45.399	45.566	45.698	45.166	45.298
6	Japan	Mitsuka Ikeda	9.100	9.133	9.033	8.400	8.966	9.200	9.133	8.933	73.20	433.653
		Kyoko Kubota	8.900	9.066	8.966	9.100	8.666	8.866	8.733	8.833
		Shizuko Sakashita	9.033	9.133	8.966	9.166	8.700	9.000	8.800	8.700
		Suzuko Seki	8.966	9.000	9.100	8.400	8.533	9.133	9.000	8.866
		Kazuko Sogabe	9.033	9.100	9.066	9.100	8.433	8.966	9.066	9.066
		Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda	9.300	9.266	9.266	8.733	9.033	9.266	9.133	9.100
		Total	45.432	45.698	45.431	44.499	43.898	45.565	45.132	44.798
7	Italy	Elisa Calsi	8.800	8.766	9.000	8.933	8.700	9.000	8.700	8.833	72.80	428.654
		Miranda Cicognani	9.166	9.000	9.033	8.100	8.900	8.966	9.066	9.366
		Rosella Cicognani	8.666	9.200	8.566	8.866	8.566	8.866	8.733	9.300
		Elena Lagorara	8.633	9.033	8.633	8.666	8.533	8.900	8.933	9.366
		Luciana Lagorara	8.700	8.833	8.566	8.566	8.433	8.666	8.800	9.133
		Luciana Reali	8.500	8.966	8.700	8.700	8.766	9.100	9.000	9.200
		Total	43.965	45.032	43.932	43.731	43.465	44.832	44.532	46.365
8	Sweden	Evy Berggren	8.966	8.833	8.000	8.866	8.533	8.800	9.100	8.866	74.20	428.60
		Doris Hedberg	9.266	9.233	8.466	7.933	8.066	9.066	9.200	9.233
		Maude Karlén	9.000	9.133	8.033	8.866	7.966	7.766	8.966	9.066
		Karin Lindberg	9.033	8.833	8.266	8.966	8.100	8.700	8.866	9.266
		Ann-Sofi Pettersson	9.066	9.100	8.600	8.800	8.333	8.766	9.433	9.300
		Eva Rönström	9.133	9.100	8.166	8.733	8.700	9.000	8.900	9.200
		Total	45.498	45.399	41.531	44.231	41.732	44.332	45.599	46.065
9	United States	Muriel Davis-Grossfeld	9.100	9.033	8.633	8.966	8.533	7.700	8.633	8.333	67.60	413.20
		Doris Fuchs	8.966	8.833	8.300	6.633	8.500	8.500	8.966	9.033
		Judy Howe	8.733	8.333	8.466	8.400	8.500	8.500	8.600	7.666
		Jackie Klein	8.900	8.533	8.366	8.733	8.233	8.233	8.633	8.666
		Joyce Racek	8.766	9.066	8.600	7.733	8.266	8.033	8.900	9.133
		Sandra Ruddick	9.100	8.433	8.333	8.133	8.800	8.533	8.933	8.866
		Total	44.832	43.898	42.398	41.965	42.599	41.799	44.065	44.031

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