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

Event:	Men's artistic team all-around
Games:	1956 Summer
Venue:	West Melbourne Stadium
Date:	3–7 December
Competitors:	42
Nations:	7
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	568.25
Goldnoc:	URS
Silvernoc:	JPN
Bronzenoc:	FIN
Prev:	1952
Next:	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

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

Rank	Nation	Gymnasts	Exercise results												Team total
			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
		9.55	9.55	9.40	9.60	9.50	9.60	9.25	9.35	9.55	9.65	9.55	9.70
		9.60	9.60	9.60	9.55	9.45	9.35	9.40	9.45	9.30	9.40	9.55	9.05
		8.95	9.30	9.35	9.35	9.50	9.75	9.35	9.35	9.30	9.55	9.30	9.45
		9.15	9.35	9.40	9.40	9.40	9.50	9.10	9.25	8.55	9.40	9.55	9.70
		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
			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
		9.40	9.10	9.40	9.30	9.00	9.60	9.00	9.30	9.40	9.30	9.30	9.45
		9.30	9.40	9.60	9.50	9.35	9.30	9.25	9.05	9.55	9.60	9.20	9.40
		9.40	9.35	9.50	9.55	9.50	9.70	9.20	9.30	9.60	9.50	9.75	9.85
		9.00	9.50	9.60	9.50	9.45	9.45	9.20	9.45	9.40	9.70	9.70	9.60
		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
			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
		9.20	9.30	8.95	9.20	9.05	9.40	9.00	9.25	9.30	9.55	9.00	9.25
		8.95	9.20	8.75	8.40	9.35	9.30	9.10	9.30	9.20	9.65	8.95	9.20
		9.05	9.45	9.45	9.40	9.45	9.35	8.80	9.10	9.45	9.45	9.20	9.45
		9.30	9.40	9.15	9.05	9.30	9.35	9.20	9.35	9.15	9.35	8.90	9.10
		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			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
		9.40	9.40	9.45	9.45	9.40	8.85	9.30	9.10	9.40	9.30	9.45	9.40
		9.10	9.30	9.30	9.20	9.15	9.10	9.10	9.45	9.15	9.15	9.20	9.10
		9.10	9.10	8.75	8.90	9.35	8.75	9.20	9.20	9.35	9.35	9.35	8.95
		9.00	9.20	9.10	9.20	9.15	8.70	9.10	9.10	9.00	9.30	9.45	9.35
		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			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
		8.85	9.15	8.35	8.15	9.20	8.85	9.30	9.30	9.20	8.45	9.25	9.40
		9.30	9.20	9.40	9.35	8.95	9.05	9.30	9.30	9.20	9.10	9.25	9.20
		8.85	9.30	9.10	9.10	9.25	8.95	9.05	9.25	9.30	9.25	8.55	9.20
		8.60	9.20	8.70	8.95	8.60	8.70	9.20	9.30	9.00	9.10	8.65	9.50
		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			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
		9.25	9.25	8.70	9.05	9.30	9.10	9.25	9.35	9.40	9.35	9.40	9.60
		9.10	9.30	9.20	8.30	8.65	8.65	8.85	9.10	8.75	9.10	9.35	9.40
		8.55	8.70	8.70	8.80	9.35	8.80	9.15	9.30	9.10	9.30	9.20	9.45
		9.00	9.20	8.10	8.75	8.60	9.15	9.10	9.25	9.05	9.30	8.80	9.05
		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			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
		7.65	8.00	7.00	7.85	6.95	7.00	9.00	8.80	8.15	8.35	8.90	8.75
		8.25	8.00	7.55	7.90	7.50	7.20	9.00	9.05	7.80	7.65	8.10	7.90
		7.25	7.50	7.95	8.45	7.70	7.85	7.50	8.90	8.00	8.15	7.70	6.10
		8.55	8.50	6.80	7.55	5.50	7.10	9.05	8.85	7.70	7.65	4.50	4.00
		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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gymnastics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Team All-Around . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417100942/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1956/GYM/mens-team-all-around.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 19 December 2019.