Editing Bodmin (section)

==Sport and leisure==
Bodmin has a [[non-league football]] club [[Bodmin Town F.C.|Bodmin Town]] playing in the [[South West Peninsula League]]; a level 10 league in the [[English football league system]]. Their home ground is at Priory Park. Bodmin Rugby Club play [[rugby union]] at Clifden Parc and compete in the [[Tribute Cornwall/Devon]] league; a level 8 league in the [[English rugby union system]].

The Royal Cornwall Golf Club (now defunct) was located on Bodmin Moor. It was founded in 1889 and became "Royal" in 1891. The club disbanded in the 1950s.<ref>[http://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1025 "Royal Cornwall Golf Club"], "Golf's Missing Links".</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/england/south-west/cornwall/1025-cor-royal-cornwall-golf-club-bodmin |title=Royal Cornwall Golf Club. Bodmin. (1889–1950s) |publisher=Golf's Missing Links |access-date=26 October 2020}}</ref>

There is an active running club, Bodmin RoadRunners.

Bodmin was a stage finish in 2021 cycling Tour of Britain (Stage 1, 5 September).

===Cornish wrestling===
Bodmin has been a great centre for [[Cornish wrestling]] over the centuries.<ref name="RCG30061810">Royal Cornwall Gazette, 30 June 1810.</ref> The Bodmin Wrestling Association was instrumental in the setting up of the Cornish Wrestling Association in 1923. At the base of the monument on The Beacon are the remains of the [[Cornish wrestling|wrestling]] ring which many believe was a [[Plen-an-gwary]].<ref name="WMN16092013">''The Western Morning News''; 16 September 2013.</ref><ref name="CG30062010">Cornish Guardian, 30 June 2010.</ref><ref name="RCG25071856">Royal Cornwall Gazette, 25 July 1856.</ref> More recently [[Cornish wrestling]] tournaments are held as part of the revival of [[Bodmin Riding]].

Other places in Bodmin where [[Cornish wrestling]] tournaments and matches were held include:
* Coldharbour near the Barracks<ref name="RCG09071908">Royal Cornwall Gazette, 9 July 1908.</ref>
* Field at Barn Lane, opposite the Asylum Reservoir<ref name="CG16091904">Cornish Guardian, 16 September 1904.</ref>
* Field which adjoins St Nicholas opposite the Great Western Railway Station<ref name="CG24061921">Cornish Guardian, 24 June 1921.</ref>
* The Gymnasium at the [[Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry|DCLI]] Barracks<ref name="CG13011922">Cornish Guardian, 13 January 1922.</ref>
* Bodmin town's ground at Westheath<ref name="CG25061936">Cornish Guardian, 25 June 1936.</ref>
* The Football Ground, Priory Park<ref name="CG11071963">Cornish Guardian, 11 July 1963.</ref>
* Bodmin priory grounds, including the 1951 inter-Celtic tournament<ref name="CG19071951">Cornish Guardian, 19 July 1951.</ref>

William George Fish, known as "Billy the Fish", from Bodmin, was the featherweight champion in 1927 and 1928 and the lightweight champion in 1933 and 1934.<ref name="Fish article">''William George Fish (1913-1954)'', Old Cornwall, Autumn 2011, p44-47.</ref><ref name="Sporting records 1937">The Longsdale Book of Sporting Records, Seeley, Service & Co Ltd, 1937, p416.</ref>