These are the results of the rhythmic team all-around competition, one of the two events of the rhythmic gymnastics discipline contested at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Background The competitors at the event included the reigning co-World champions, Kateryna Serebrianska and Maria Petrova.

Event format The event used "new life" scoring, meaning that scores were not carried over from qualifications to the final round. 5 points were given for composition and 5 for execution for a maximum score of 10.0, though judges were instructed to avoid "perfect" scores and ties.

Scoring controversies Multiple competitors, including fifth-place Maria Petrova, bronze medalist Olena Vitrychenko - the only gymnast to complete all 12 routines without dropping her apparatus - and gold medalist Kateryna Serebrianska expressed a belief that their scores were not based only on their performances but political favor with the judges. Of the thirty-seven competitors in the preliminary round, two earned exactly the same score for all four routines, and twenty-six more received scores within 0.10 points for each routine.

Results

In the first round, there were thirty-seven competitors. From that thirty-seven, the highest scoring twenty would go on to the next round. From that twenty, the highest scoring ten would go on to the final round. Rank Name Nation Total Ekaterina Serebrianskaya 9.950 (1) 9.950 (1) 9.950 (1) 9.833 (1) 39.683 Yanina Batyrchina 9.850 (3) 9.916 (2) 9.933 (2) 9.683 (7) 39.382 Elena Vitrichenko 9.866 (2) 9.800 (4) 9.849 (3) 9.816 (3) 39.331 4 Amina Zaripova 9.783 (4) 9.866 (3) 9.783 (4) 9.832 (2) 39.265 5 Maria Petrova 9.733 (5) 9.783 (5) 9.733 (5) 9.750 (=4) 39.000 6 Eva Serrano 9.683 (7) 9.700 (7) 9.700 (=6) 9.733 (6) 38.817 7 Larissa Lukyanenko 9.466 (10) 9.750 (6) 9.700 (=6) 9.750 (=4) 38.666 8 Tatiana Ogrizko 9.583 (8) 9.682 (8) 9.599 (9) 9.666 (8) 38.530 9 Almudena Cid 9.700 (6) 9.566 (10) 9.683 (8) 9.566 (10) 38.515 10 Magdalena Brzeska 9.516 (9) 9.600 (9) 9.566 (10) 9.633 (9) 38.315

References

External links http://www.gymnasticsresults.com/olympics/og1996rg.html