Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around These are the results of the women's team all-around competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The compulsory and optional rounds took place on August 27 and 28 at the Sports Hall. The team competition saw the first performance of a standing back somersault on the balance beam, by Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut. The final score for each team was determined by combining all of the scores earned by the team on each apparatus during the compulsory and
Liu Tingting (gymnast) by 19-year-old Tan Jiaxin, who in 2014 and 2015 had already won two team all-around silver medals at the World Championships. At the 2017 World Cup in Melbourne, Liu qualified first on balance beam and second on uneven bars and floor exercise. She went on to place first on uneven bars and balance beam and third on floor exercise. At the 2018 World Championships, Liu qualified in eighth place on balance beam, barely making the finals after putting her hand down on a front tuck, before winning gold with both the highest difficulty (6.3) and highest execution scores (8.233) of