Editing Ghent (section)

==Sports==
[[File:Ghelamcoarena05.jpg|thumb|[[Planet Group Arena]]]]
In the [[Belgian First Division|Belgian first football division]] Ghent is represented by [[K.A.A. Gent]], who became [[Belgian football champions]] for the first time in its history in 2015. Another Ghent football club is [[KRC Gent-Zeehaven]], playing in the Belgian fourth division. A football match at the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] was held in Ghent.<ref>[https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197008/matches/match=32276/report.html FIFA Confederations Cup – Olympic Football Tournament Antwerp 1920 – FIFA.com]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201211636/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament%3D512/edition%3D197008/matches/match%3D32276/report.html |date=1 February 2009 }}</ref>

The [[Six Days of Ghent]], a [[Six-day racing|six-day track cycling race]], is held annually, taking place in the [[Kuipke]] velodrome in Ghent. In road cycling, the city hosts the start and finish of the {{Lang|nl|[[Omloop Het Nieuwsblad]]|italic=no}}, the traditional opening race of the [[cobbled classics]] season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.teamsky.com/teamsky/home/article/26869 |title=Omloop Het Nieuwsblad race guide  |website=[[Team Sky]] |access-date=21 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111901/http://www.teamsky.com/teamsky/home/article/26869 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It also lends its name to another cobbled classic, [[Gent–Wevelgem]], although the race now starts in the nearby city of [[Deinze]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/03/news/road/storied-ghent-wevelgem-poised-for-a-brutal-edition_278748 |title=Storied Ghent-Wevelgem poised for a brutal edition |last1=Beaudin |first1=Matthew |date=23 March 2013 |website=[[VeloNews]] |access-date=22 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041857/http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/03/news/road/storied-ghent-wevelgem-poised-for-a-brutal-edition_278748 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The city hosts an annual [[athletics (sport)|athletics]] [[IAAF]] event in the [[Flanders Sports Arena]]: the [[Indoor Flanders meeting]] where two-time Olympic champion [[Hicham El Guerrouj]] set an indoor [[List of world records in athletics|world record]] of 3:48.45 in the [[mile run]] in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=World records|url=http://www.iaaf.org/records/by-category/world-records#results-tab-sub-men=1|website=iaaf.org|access-date=8 June 2015}}</ref>

The Flanders Sports Arena was host to the 2015 [[Davis Cup]] Final between [[Belgium Davis Cup Team|Belgium]] and [[British Davis Cup Team|Great Britain]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ghent to host 2015 Davis Cup Final|url=http://www.daviscup.com/en/news/215021.aspx|website=daviscup.com|date=23 September 2015|access-date=23 September 2015}}</ref>