Exemptions for Nationals Increased
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Exemptions for Nationals Increased
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February 1942
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Exemptions for Nationals Increased
The list of those exempt from qualifying from the divisions for the national individual championships in all weapons was increased to include all previous national champions, and the medal winners of the preceding year, by the A. F. L. A. board of governors at a recent meeting.
The question of qualifiers has been under study by the A. F. L. A. rules committee for more than six months, and it is as a result of their recommendations that the new plan was adopted. It was discussed in an article in the June 1941 Riposte by Miguel A. de Capriles, chairman of the rules committee.
The new plan, by automatically qualifying the proven leaders, will allow more fencers to have a place in the championships and will permit divisions which have shown superior strength in one weapon to enter a correspondingly large number of fencers in that weapon in the championship finals.
