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

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]

Men's artistic team all-around at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	West Melbourne Stadium
Date	3–7 December
Competitors	42 from 7 nations
Winning score	568.25
Medalists
Albert Azaryan Viktor Chukarin Valentin Muratov Boris Shakhlin Pavel Stolbov Yuri Titov  Soviet Union Nobuyuki Aihara Akira Kono Masami Kubota Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shinsaku Tsukawaki  Japan Raimo Heinonen Olavi Laimuvirta Onni Lappalainen Berndt Lindfors Martti Mansikka Kalevi Suoniemi  Finland
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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
			C	V	C	V	C	V	C	V	C	V	C	V
	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
	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
	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