Editing Cambrai (section)

===Sports===
[[File:Centre nautique Cambrai.JPG|thumb|left|The Liberté Swimming Centre]]

Cambrai has over a hundred clubs or sporting associations, including the {{Interlanguage link multi|Cambrai Hockey Club|fr}}<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.cambraihockeyclub.com/|title = page d'accueil|work = le site du Cambrai Hockey Club|access-date = 2010-06-12|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100612004350/http://www.cambraihockeyclub.com/|archive-date = 2010-06-12|url-status = dead}}</ref>  playing in the Women's [[field hockey]] Championship of France, as well as the team of {{Interlanguage link multi|Cambrai Volley-Ball|fr|3=Cambrai Volley-Ball|lt=Cambrai Volley Élan du Cambrésis}}<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.cambraivolley.com|title = page d'accueil|work =le site de Cambrai Volley}}</ref> which plays in the League (2nd division) and is the only professional club of le Cambrésis.

Facilities include six gymnasiums, two swimming pools, of which the Liberty Swimming Centre was rebuilt and reopened in 2008, the Arsenal de Balagny, which was built between 1581 and 1595, abandoned by the army in 1967 and then rehabilitated as a gym, a leisure centre, a hockey stadium, a rugby stadium and many football pitches, including the Liberty Stadium, home of [[AC Cambrai]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://acc-football.footeo.com/|title = page d'accueil|work =Athletic Club de Cambrai}}</ref>

Cambrai has a rowing club that goes under the name of ''Union Nautique de Cambrai''. The club is regularly present to the Rowing French Championships. In the early 2000s, one of its feminine team members made it to the World Championships. Since then, the club has been in the phase of beginning a new cycle based on renewed team members, especially youngsters.
Every year, the club is home to the Regattas of Cambrai, during which clubs from Northern France gather for sprint-races on a 1000m distance.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/aviron-dix-clubs-presents-pour-les-regates-de-cambrai-ia13b0n2801181 | title=Aviron : Dix clubs présents pour les Régates de Cambrai | date=29 April 2015 }}</ref>

The game of {{Interlanguage link multi|Billon (game)|fr|3=Billon (jeu)|lt=billon}} is practiced traditionally in regions of Cambrai and Douai.

Cambrai was the departure point for Stage 4 of the [[2004 Tour de France]]<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.letour.fr/2004/presentationfr/parcours.html|title = Parcours|work = Tour de France 2004|access-date = 21 May 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100717170536/http://www.letour.fr/2004/presentationfr/parcours.html|archive-date = 17 July 2010|url-status = dead}}</ref> and once again the departure point of Stage 4 in the [[2010 Tour de France]].<ref>
{{cite web|url = http://www.letour.fr/2010./TDF/LIVE/fr/400/videos.html?target=150975|title = La course 2010. – étape 4 – Cambrai Reims|work = Tour de France}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Cambrai hosted the finish of Stage 4 in the [[2015 Tour de France]], on 7 July, with a route from [[Seraing]].

In 2010, the newspaper ''[[L'Équipe]]'' ranked Cambrai among the top five cities as the most sporty in France with more than 20,000 inhabitants, along with [[Lorient]], [[Colmar]], [[Antibes]] and [[Tarbes]]. The special prize of "Sport and Disability" was awarded to the city for its access to sport for people with disabilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.villedecambrai.com/toute-lactualite/cambresien.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115065205/http://www.villedecambrai.com/toute-lactualite/cambresien.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-01-15|title=Journal municipal: Le Cambrésien n° 146|work=Ville de Cambrai}}</ref>