Editing Celle (section)

==Sports==
The Celler Oilers are an ice hockey team that play in the Regionalliga or regional league. From 1968 to the mid-1970s Celle's football club, [[TuS Celle FC|TuS Celle]], played in the German second division (then called the [[Fußball-Regionalliga|Regionalliga]] or ''"regional league"''). After two bankruptcies and relegation, it was promoted to the Lower Saxony league for the 2004–2005 season and, since 2005 has played in the Northeast Lower Saxony league (''[[Oberliga (football)|Oberliga]] Niedersachsen Nordost''), which is fifth tier of the German football league system.

The [[team handball|handball]] club, SV Garßen-Celle, has fielded a women's team that had played in the women's Second Division North since the mid-1990s. In 2009 it came first and was promoted to the First Division.

Since 1983 the Celle Wasa Run (''Celler Wasa-Lauf'') has taken place every year on the second Sunday of March in Celle's town centre. This has become one of the biggest running events in Germany for distances less than a marathon and is divided into runs of several distances: a children's run of {{convert|2.5|km|1|abbr=on}} and runs of 5, 10, 15 and {{convert|20|km|1|abbr=on}} distance. For several years there has also been a hiking (''Wandern'') event over {{convert|11|km|0|abbr=on}} along the Aller as well as ''Walking'' and ''Nordic Walking'' events. 2004 saw a record number of participants with 11,232 men and women taking part.
Celle is one of five centres for the Lower Saxony Rowing Club. The Celle Sprint Regatta takes place annually in October on the Upper Aller at the Ziegeninsel and is hosted by the ''Hermann Billung Celle'', ''Celler Ruderverein'' and ''Ruderclub Ernestinum-Hölty Celle'' rowing clubs.

The Celle Triathlon always takes place in August. This was originally organised by the Celle branch of the [[German Alpine Club]] (''Deutscher Alpenverein''), but for several years has been run by ''SV Altencelle''.

Since 2001 Celle has played host to the ''In-Line Skating and Handbike Marathon'' from Hanover to Celle. This is one of the biggest races of its kind in Germany. In 2007 the European Masters [[speed skating]] championship took place as part of this event.

Celle also hosted [[Angola]]'s national football team during the [[2006 Football World Cup]].