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=== Other sports === [[File:UFC 129.jpg|thumb|[[UFC 129]] was held at the Rogers Centre in April 2011]] Rogers Centre has also hosted exhibition [[cricket]], [[gaelic football]], [[hurling]], [[Australian rules football]] and [[1990 SkyDome World Tennis Tournament|tennis]]. It hosted the [[1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships|1993 IAAF World Indoor Track and Field Championships]]. On May 31, 1997, the venue hosted a post-Olympic [[Bailey–Johnson 150-metre race|track and field event]] that pitted Olympic track champions [[Donovan Bailey]] and [[Michael Johnson (sprinter)|Michael Johnson]], in a 150 m race billed as a competition for the title of the "World's Fastest Man", given media disputes over that title during the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in Atlanta. Bailey won the race, completing it in a time of 15 seconds and winning the $1.5 million prize. Johnson pulled up lame at the 110 m mark claiming a quadriceps injury. Rogers Centre is the site of several major [[High school (North America)|high school]] and [[College athletics|collegiate]] sporting competitions, such as the [[Prentice Cup]] for high school baseball. Since 2008, the Rogers Centre is the host of the Greater Toronto high schools' [[Metro Bowl]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Metro Bowl to Have a U.S. Flavour|first=David|last=Grossman|url=https://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/532394|newspaper=[[Toronto Star]]|date=November 7, 2008|access-date=February 23, 2011}}</ref> On April 30, 2011, [[UFC 129]] was hosted at Rogers Centre, in the first major [[mixed martial arts]] event to ever be held in Ontario after the province lifted a ban on prizefighting. Due to overwhelming demand for tickets (with the initial slate of 42,000 selling in around half an hour), the UFC and Rogers Centre reconfigured the event for 55,000 tickets. The event broke a UFC attendance record set at [[UFC 124]] in Montreal, and also set records for the largest single-day gate revenue in both UFC (surpassing [[UFC 66]] by at least double) and Rogers Centre history.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mmaweekly.com/ufc-129-sold-out-shatters-records-with-55000-tickets|title=UFC 129 Sold Out, Shatters Records With 55,000 Tickets|work= MMAWeekly.com|date=February 12, 2011|language=en-US|access-date=January 22, 2020}}</ref> For the [[2015 Pan American Games]], the Rogers Centre was used for the [[2015 Pan American Games opening ceremony|opening]] and [[2015 Pan American Games closing ceremony|closing]] ceremonies.
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