Posted on July 04, 2021
Which South African female athlete has won three national titles in 2021 and nearly set a national record is a question few sport fans might know the answer to. The honour befalls the 19-year-old, Marione Fourie. Don't try and do an internet search to try and find out more about her heroics....
Posted on July 02, 2021
Sub ten seconds over 100 metres and not just a sub ten. A good sub ten is the challenge that awaits Akani Simbine when he races next week in Europe. The Tuks based sprinter is competing in Hungary on Tuesday. However, Friday's Monaco Diamond League Meeting is going to be the big one. "As...
Posted on July 01, 2021
Rikenette Steenkamp proved that you cannot keep a good woman down when she won the women’s 100m-hurdles in a time of 13.23s during the recent AGN League 5 Championship at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium.
Posted on July 01, 2021
Tlotliso Gift Leotlela (TuksSport High School matriculant), proved that winning is addictive when he won the 100 metres in 10.24s in Bydgoszcz, Poland, last night. It is the Tuks Olympian sprinter's second victory in nine days. He also won last week in Madrid. If Leotlela can have one wish...
Posted on June 22, 2021
Challenging the stopwatch has become the norm to Wayne Snyman. It is what you do if you are an Olympian wanting to beat the world's best. However, the Tuks race walker realises that being fast during training and doing so while racing is not the same thing. That is why he competed at the 2021...
Posted on June 21, 2021
Tlotliso Gift Leotlela notched up his first international win of the season when he won the 100m with a time of 10.15 seconds at the Meeting Madrid held at the Estadio de Vallehermoso in Madrid, Spain on 19 June 2021. The Tuks athlete describes it as the confidence booster he needed. "It...
Posted on June 20, 2021
Koos van der Merwe, one of the legends of South African athletics, sadly passed away at the beginning of this month. He was 65. He will be remembered as someone who lived life to its fullest until he was diagnosed with dementia.
Posted on June 11, 2021
Akani Simbine notched up his fourth 100-metre victory in the Diamond League by running 10.08s in Florence on Thursday, 10 June 2021. The Tuks based sprinter did not have the best of starts, but once he got into his rhythm and reach his top-end speed, there was no stopping him. He outsprinted...
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