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TheGreen Point StadiuminCape Town,South Africa was a multi-purpose sports stadium. Opened in 1897,[1] it had a concrete banked cycle track, also occasionally used for motorsport, with a lap distance of a third of a mile - 586.6 yards (536.4 m)[2] - and inside the cycle track was an athletics track. When it first opened it had seating for 1,000 people, and could accommodate 3,000 standing spectators.[3] Prior to its demolition in 2007, it had 18,000 seats.[4]
Jack Rose twice held the world amateur human-pacedhour record for cycling in 1898 and 1899, on the latter occasion riding 30 miles 606 yards in the hour at Green Point.[5]
The stadium was also used for cricket matches[6] and for football, and was the home ground ofSantos Football Club andAjax Cape Town at different points.
It also hosted music events including concerts byJanet Jackson,Gloria Estefan,Michael Jackson,Roxette,Whitney Houston,Def Leppard,Bon Jovi,U2,Metallica,Paul Simon,Robbie Williams, and the Coca-Cola Colab Massive Mix. It hosted the 200346664 Concert for the benefit ofAIDS victims.[7]
It was also used by local schools such as CBC, Ellerton, de Kuilen andSea Point High School to host their annual inter-school athletics competitions.
It was partly demolished in 2007 during construction of an adjacent new stadium, theCape Town Stadium, built on part of an existing golf course for the2010 FIFA World Cup.[8] The main stand of the rebuiltGreen Point Athletics Stadium was constructed on the site of the old stadium's main stand.[9] The athletics stadium was completed in early 2013, and can seat 7,000 people.
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