Editing Alta Municipality (section)

==Sports==
Alta is home to the [[football team|football club]] [[Alta IF]]. Cross-country skiing is very popular. Alta also has clubs for handball, track and field, alpine skiing, ice skating, taekwondo, and judo.

The bicycle race [[Finnmark Offroad]], with 700- and 300-kilometer long courses, starts and ends in Alta ({{As of|2014|lc=y}}).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mortensen |first=Robin |date=29 July 2014 |title=Nå venter 700&nbsp;km på sykkelsetet |url=https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/na-venter-700-km-pa-sykkelsetet-1.11854597 |access-date=11 March 2023 |website=NRK}}</ref>

Alta is the starting point for the [[Finnmarksløpet]], a 500- and 1000- kilometer sled dog race—The longest sled dog race in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Finnmarksløpet – Europas longest dog-sled race – 1200km of extreme |url=http://www.finnmarkslopet.no/home/ |access-date=6 November 2018 |website=finnmarkslopet.no |language=nb-NO}}</ref>