| Women's team portable apparatus at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | |
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| Venue | West Melbourne Stadium |
| Date | 3–7 December |
| Competitors | 54 from 9 nations |
| Medalists | |
← 1952 | |
| Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts | ||
| Artistic | ||
| Team all-around | men | women |
| Team Portable Apparatus | women | |
| Individual all-around | men | women |
| Vault | men | women |
| Floor | men | women |
| Pommel horse | men | |
| Rings | men | |
| Parallel bars | men | |
| Horizontal bar | men | |
| Uneven bars | women | |
| Balance beam | women | |
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The women's team portable apparatus competition was one of the events of the artistic gymnastics discipline contested in the 1956 Summer OlympicsinMelbourne. 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 OlympicsinLos Angeles.
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.
