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

These are the results of the Women's team portable apparatus competition, one of the events of the artistic gymnastics discipline contested in the gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. The portable apparatus would eventually be removed from the Women's Artistic Gymnastics competition.

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

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.