Editing Bayonne (section)

==Sports==
[[File:Bayonne Aviron Bayonnais.jpg|thumb|Bayonne rowing boat shed]]

* '''Rowing''', a popular sport for a long time on the Nive and the Adour near Bayonne. There are two clubs: the Nautical Society of Bayonne (SNB) (established in 1875) and ''Aviron Bayonnais''—established in 1904 by former members of the SNB and which later became a sports club.
*'''Basketball'''. ''Denek Bat Bayonne Urcuit'' is a basketball club with a male section competing in NM1 (3rd national level of the French league). The club is based in the city of [[Urcuit]] but plays in the Lauga Sports Palace in Bayonne.
*'''Football'''. [[Aviron Bayonnais FC]] play their home games at Didier Deschamps Stadium in [[Championnat National 3]] (the 5th French division) since the 2013–2014 season after a year in CFA and three consecutive years in the {{Lang|fr|[[Championnat National]]|italic=no}}. [[Didier Deschamps]] started his career at Aviron Bayonnais FC. The stadium, formerly called the ''Grand Basque'', is now named after him. There are also three other football clubs in Bayonne: the ''Crusaders of Saint Andrew'' playing in the higher regional division, the ''Portuguese stars of Bayonne'' (first district division), and the Bayonne association on the right bank of the river (3rd district division).
*'''Omnisports'''. Aviron Bayonnais, created in 1904, includes many sports sections and a large number of members.<ref group=Note>There are 20 sports sections including the ''Aviron Bayonnais pro rugby'' and Aviron Bayonnais FC according to the [http://www.aviron-bayonnais.asso.fr Aviron Bayonnais FC website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051109220010/http://www.aviron-bayonnais.asso.fr/ |date=9 November 2005 }} (accessed 29 July 2014).</ref> The pro rugby and football club are the most famous sections of the club. The ''Bayonne Olympic Club'', created in 1972, is located in the district of Hauts de Sainte-Croix. The club offers a wide range of sports including [[pelote]], gymnastics, combat sports, and a [[Pool (cue sports)|pool]] section. The club had nearly 400 members in 2007.
*'''[[Basque Pelota]]''' Bayonne is an important place for Basque pelota. The ''French Federation of Basque Pelota'' is headquartered at ''Trinquet moderne'' near the Bullring.<ref>[http://www.ffpb.net/fr/13-contact-federation-francaise-de-pelote-basque.php The headquarters of the French Federation of Basque Pelota] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222094429/http://www.ffpb.net/fr/13-contact-federation-francaise-de-pelote-basque.php |date=22 December 2015 }}, retrieved 5 August 2014 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> Many titles were won by pelota players from the city. The World Championships took place in Bayonne in 1978 in association with Biarritz.<ref>[https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/116781361635170857302/albums/6028550626011011617 Photos of the French delegation at the World championships for Basque pelota], consulted on 5 August 2014 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref>
*'''Rugby''' appeared in Basque Country at the end of the 19th century with the arrival, in 1897 at Bayonne High School, of a 20-year-old person from Landes who converts his comrades to football-rugby which he had discovered in Bordeaux.<ref>Marie-France Chauvirey, ''Life in olden days in Basque country'', Éditions Sud Ouest, Luçon, 1994, {{ISBN|2 87901 219 8}}, p. 157 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> Practicing in the fields near the Spanish Gate, they communicated their enthusiasm to other colleges in Bayonne and Biarritz leading to the creation of the Biarritz Sporting Club and Biarritz Stadium which merged in 1913 to become [[Biarritz Olympique]]. Bayonne has two rugby clubs: The Bayonne Athletic Association (ASB) plays in [[Fédérale 3]] while the [[Aviron Bayonnais]] rugby pro in the 2014–2015 season played in [[Top 14]], where they have played without interruption since the 2004–2005 season. Aviron Bayonnais has won three league titles in France (1913, 1934 and 1943). It was the first club from a small town to become champion of France. Its stadium is the [[Stade Jean Dauger]]. There is also a women's team in the ASB, playing in the National Division 1B. This team won the 2014 Armelle Auclair challenge.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}