Editing Lokeren (section)

==Sports and events==
[[File:20110720 daknamstadion.jpg|thumb|[[Daknamstadion]]]]
*The best [[football club (association football)|football club]] of the city is [[K.S.C. Lokeren-Temse]].
*Lokeren is well known within Flanders for an annual ten-day music fest and fair (the ''[http://www.lokersefeesten.be Lokerse Feesten]''), which takes place during the first week of August.
* [[Rapencross Lokeren|Rapencross]] is an international [[cyclo-cross]] race that is held in Lokeren since 2018. 

On 14 July 1970, Lokeren was the scene of a sporting disaster, when a minibus carrying a team of speedway riders from West Ham, London, was involved in a collision with a petrol tanker. 4 riders were killed, two seriously injured and [[Phil Bishop]] a famous speedway ace from the 1930s, who was managing the team was also killed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tragic West Ham speedway crash remembered on 46th anniversary |url=https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/tragic-west-ham-speedway-crash-remembered-on-46th-anniversary-1-4617561}}</ref>