U.S. Open Track and Field was the name of the first top level indoor

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meet in 2012. The U.S. Open was the opening competition in the 2012 IAAF Indoor Permit Meeting series and was also part of the Visa Championship Series. Held in

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, the inaugural event was announced for January 28, 2012, with television coverage on January 29 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on

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. Announced as continuation of a 99-year indoor track and field tradition at Madison Square Garden, the meet displaced the

Millrose Games The Millrose Games is an annual indoor athletics meet (track and field) held each February in New York City. They started taking place at the Armory in Washington Heights in 2012, after having taken place in Madison Square Garden from 1914 to 2011 ...

, which has been the longest standing annual event at the arena for the previous 98 years. The Millrose Games will continue at the

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. The event lasted just one year, and was cancelled in 2013.

Meet Records

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Women

References

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