Sports and Events
- Waregem is well known for its annual horse races at the local hippodrome, including the Great Flanders Steeple Chase, which takes place the first Tuesday after the last Sunday of August. In the local language this week-long event, dating from 1847, is known as the Waregem Koerse.
- Waregem is notable in the UK for a prominent position in the song; "Ordinary to Enschede" by Half Man Half Biscuit.
- Waregem is the hometown of former football team K.S.V. Waregem and present team S.V. Zulte-Waregem.
- The town is the finish of the classic Dwars door Vlaanderen (English: Across Flanders) road bicycle race. It also was the departure of the third leg of the 2007 Tour de France, going from Waregem to Compiègne.
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