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| EXCALIBUR HISTORY |
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The Excalibur fencing tournament is an inter-county event, the biggest in the country. Each county fields teams at foil, epee and sabre.
The tournament was started by Bob Southcombe in 1953. Bob invited 6 teams who fenced each other over 3 days. It must have been a much more leisurely affair! Surrey were involved from the very start and have an enviable consistency of success.
As far as the records show, the competition has always been organised by members of Bath Sword Club on behalf of the South West Region.
The tournament is hugely popular and well known in the fencing world. Much of the success is due to the present organiser, Lynne Bornemisza.
She was first involved in the tournament in 1973 when she served tea for the fencers from the canteen and she has been present every year since! She took over organising the tournament in 1980 and with Bob's blessing increased the number of counties invited - first to eight then ten and then to 12 which we all agree is the most that will fit into any local venue. The tournament was also reduced to 2 days to add a little more pressure. The last enlargement was to include Ladies Sabre in 2002 so the total number of fights is now 3564 over a 2-day weekend!
John Mason
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