Editing Cornwall (section)

===Sports===
{{Main|Sport in Cornwall}}
[[File:Gerry and Ashley Cawley.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Cornish wrestling]]]]
The main sports played in Cornwall are [[Rugby union|rugby]], [[Association football|football]] and [[cricket]]. Athletes from Truro have done well in [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] and [[Commonwealth Games]] fencing, winning several medals. [[Surfing]] is popular, particularly with tourists, thousands of whom take to the water throughout the summer months. Some towns and villages have bowling clubs, and a wide variety of British sports are played throughout Cornwall. Cornwall is also one of the few [[Cornwall Shinty Club|places]] in England where [[shinty]] is played; the [[English Shinty Association]] is based in [[Penryn, Cornwall|Penryn]].

The [[Cornwall County Cricket Club]] plays as one of the [[National Counties of English and Welsh cricket]].<ref name="Clegg10"/>

Truro, and all of the towns and some villages have [[Association football|football]] clubs belonging to the [[Cornwall County Football Association]], and some clubs have teams competing higher within the [[English football league pyramid]].<ref name=NLM>"[https://www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/divisions/16/ Western League Premier Division (Step 5)]", ''Non-League Matters'', 7 May 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.</ref> Of these, the highest ranked — by two flights — is [[Truro City F.C.]], who played in the [[National League South]] in the 2023–24 season.<ref>"[https://www.trurocityfc.net/news/truro-promoted-after-dramatic-play-off-final-victory-2777961.html Truro Promoted after dramatic play-off trophy final victory]", ''Truro FC official site'', 4 May 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.</ref> Other notable Cornish teams include [[Mousehole A.F.C.]], [[Helston Athletic F.C.]], and [[Falmouth Town F.C.]]<ref name=NLM/>

====Rugby football====
{{main|Rugby union in Cornwall|Rugby league in Cornwall}}
[[File:Olympic Rugby 1908.jpg|thumb|At the 1908 Olympic Games Cornwall's rugby football team represented England (against Australia)]]
Viewed as an "important identifier of ethnic affiliation", [[rugby union]] has become a sport strongly tied to notions of Cornishness.<ref name="Harv221">{{cite book |author=Harvey, David |year= 2002 |title=Celtic Geographies: Old Culture, New Times |url=https://archive.org/details/celticgeographie00harv |url-access=limited |location=London |publisher= Routledge |isbn= 978-0-415-22396-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/celticgeographie00harv/page/n235 221]}}</ref> and since the 20th century, [[rugby union in Cornwall|rugby union]] has emerged as one of the most popular spectator and team sports in Cornwall (perhaps the most popular), with professional Cornish rugby footballers being described as a "formidable force",<ref name="Clegg10"/> "naturally independent, both in thought and deed, yet paradoxically staunch English patriots whose top players have represented England with pride and passion".<ref name="CornishRug">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/club/3247717/Cornish-rugby-union-celebrate-125-years-of-pride-and-passion---but-are-they-the-lost-tribe-Rugby.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=UK|title=Cornish rugby union celebrate 125 years of pride and passion – but are they the lost tribe?|first=Brendan|last=Gallagher|date=23 October 2008|access-date=7 September 2009|archive-date=27 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027084935/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/club/3247717/Cornish-rugby-union-celebrate-125-years-of-pride-and-passion---but-are-they-the-lost-tribe-Rugby.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1985, sports journalist [[Alan Gibson]] made a direct connection between the love of rugby in Cornwall and the ancient parish games of hurling and wrestling that existed for centuries before rugby officially began.<ref name="CornishRug"/> Among Cornwall's native sports are a distinctive form of Celtic wrestling related to [[Brittany|Breton]] wrestling, and [[Hurling the Silver Ball|Cornish hurling]], a kind of mediaeval football played with a silver ball (distinct from [[Hurling|Irish Hurling]]). [[Cornish wrestling]] is Cornwall's oldest sport and as Cornwall's native tradition it has travelled the world to places like [[Victoria, Australia]] and [[Grass Valley, California]] following the miners and [[gold rushes]]. Cornish hurling now takes place at [[St. Columb Major]], [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]], and less frequently at [[Bodmin]].{{efn|The Bodmin hurl is held whenever the ceremony of [[beating the bounds]] takes place: each occasion must be five years or more after the last one.}}

In [[rugby league]], [[Cornwall R.L.F.C.]], founded in 2021, will represent the county in the professional league system. The semi-pro club will start in the third tier [[RFL League 1]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-league/59120702|title=Cornwall to host new rugby league team|work=BBC Sport |accessdate=24 November 2022}}</ref> At an amateur level, the county is represented by [[Cornish Rebels]].

====Surfing and watersports====
[[File:Pilot Gigs St Mary's.jpg|thumb|The world [[Cornish pilot gig|pilot gig]] rowing championships take place annually in the [[Isles of Scilly]]]]
[[File:GwithianSurfing.jpg|thumb|right|Cornwall's north coast is known as a centre for [[surfing]]]]
Due to its long coastline, various maritime sports are popular in Cornwall, notably sailing and [[surfing]]. International events in both are held in Cornwall. Cornwall hosted the Inter-Celtic [[Watersports]] Festival in 2006. Surfing in particular is very popular, as locations such as [[Bude]] and [[Newquay]] offer some of the best surf in the UK. [[Cornish pilot gig|Pilot gig]] rowing has been popular for many years and the [[World Pilot Gig Championships|world championships]] take place annually on the [[Isles of Scilly]]. On 2 September 2007, 300 surfers at [[Polzeath]] beach set a new world record for the highest number of surfers riding the same wave as part of the Global Surf Challenge and part of a project called Earthwave to raise awareness about [[global warming]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6974667.stm |title=Surfers aim to break world record |work=BBC News |date=2 September 2007 |access-date=25 September 2010 |archive-date=2 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202113433/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6974667.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Fencing====
As its population is comparatively small, and largely rural, Cornwall's contribution to [[sport in the United Kingdom|British national sport]] has been limited;<ref name="Clegg10">{{harvnb|Clegg|2005|p=10}}.</ref> the county's greatest successes have come in fencing. In 2014, half of the men's GB team fenced for Truro Fencing Club, and three Truro fencers appeared at the 2012 Olympics.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pilnick |first=Brent |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fencing/18296910 |title=London 2012: Truro fencers dominate GB Olympic team |work=[[BBC Sport]] |date=1 June 2012 |access-date=28 July 2016 |archive-date=1 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701002151/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/fencing/18296910 |url-status=live }}</ref>