Posted on May 13, 2019
The Tuks sprinters played a significant role in ensuring that South Africa won a silver medal in the 4x200m-relay during the IAAF World Relays in Yokohama, Japan.
Posted on May 09, 2019
The South African men's 4x100m-relay team will have to dip under 38 seconds if it wants to have any chance of medalling during the weekend's World Relay Championships in Yokohama.
Posted on May 02, 2019
A 22-member final team has been unveiled by Athletics South Africa (ASA) for the IAAF World Relays to be held in Yokohama, Japan between 11-12 May.
Posted on April 29, 2019
Lindsay Hanekom (Tuks) achieved something no South African 400m-hurdler could do for the past three years when he won in a time of 48.81s during yesterday's South African Senior Athletics Championships in Germiston.
Posted on April 29, 2019
It is still early days but judging from what happened during the South African Athletics Championships in Germiston it would seem as if a new generation of female stars is on the rise.
Posted on April 25, 2019
Only once in the history of South African athletics has two sprinters managed to dip under ten seconds in the 100 metres during the same race, but this statistic might change tomorrow afternoon during the South African Senior Athletics Championships in Germiston.
Posted on April 25, 2019
The challenge for the talented youngsters competing in the 400m-hurdles final on Saturday in Germiston seems on face value to be relatively simple beat Wenda Nel (Tuks) and become the new South African women's champion.
Posted on April 24, 2019
No sprinter will ever give up the opportunity to clock a fast time; however, Clarence Munyai has changed his priorities slightly. This year it is for him all about winning medals.
Posted on April 23, 2019
The TuksSport High School athletes certainly made their presence felt during last week’s Africa Junior and Youth Championships in Abidjan winning three gold medals.
Posted on April 10, 2019
Every time Prudence Sekgodiso (TuksSport High School) steps onto the track to race, she only has one goal, and that is to win.
Posted on April 08, 2019
Jovan van Vuuren (Tuks) can genuinely claim to have gone from “zero to hero” on Friday when he won the long jump with an effort of 8.10m during the USSA Championships in Stellenbosch.
Posted on April 04, 2019
Going for gold will have to be the only goal for the Tuks athletes competing at the USSA Championships in Stellenbosch this weekend.
Posted on April 01, 2019
Global champions Luke Davids and Sokwakhana “Soks” Zazini lived up to the hype on Thursday (28 March 2019) securing national titles in their specialist events on the opening day of the Twizza ASA U18 and U20 Track & Field Championships at the Dal Josaphat Athletics Stadium in Paarl.
Posted on March 27, 2019
Aynslee van Graan (Tuks) might be a novice when it comes to competing against the world’s best, but that does not mean she will be making up the numbers on Saturday when lining up to compete in the World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.
Posted on March 27, 2019
Zeney van der Walt (Tuks) has set her sights at the South African Junior and Youth Championships in Paarl to do what only three other local junior female athletes have managed to do, and that is to dip under 53 seconds in the 400m.
Posted on March 20, 2019
At 33 years of age Ruan de Vries can undoubtedly lay claim to being one of the “old men” of South African Track athletics; however, it does not mean he is slowing down he actually seems to be getting faster in the 110-hurdles.
Posted on March 18, 2019
Caster Semenya might conquer a new distance this season judging by what happened yesterday during the Gauteng North Athletics Championships at Tuks where she went on to win the 5 000m.
Posted on March 18, 2019
The UP-Tuks reign as the champions of Varsity Athletics might have come to an end on Friday in Potchefstroom however it was indeed not a case of them merely capitulating.
Posted on March 14, 2019
2018 was the year that the University of Pretoria’s TuksSport teams lifted the standard of university sport to an entirely new level, winning four of the Varsity Sports competitions, in the process ensuring Tuks’s dominance as the overall champions for the second consecutive year.
Posted on March 13, 2019
The 400m-hurdles for women could be one of the most exciting events on the local athletics calendar this season as for the first time in nearly ten years there will be a real rivalry.
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