Posted on March 13, 2019
Tuks’s athletes will have to take the Olympic motto of faster, higher and stronger to heart on Friday in Potchefstroom if they want to have any chance of defending the Varsity Athletics title.
Posted on March 11, 2019
Emile Erasmus (Tuks)’s performance in the 100 metres on Saturday during the Gauteng North Championship held at the University of Pretoria is undoubtedly going to be worth watching.
Posted on March 11, 2019
Varsity Athletics fastest sprinter for the moment, Shaahid Motala (Tuks), had to withdraw from Friday’s second meeting in Potchefstroom due to a slight hamstring injury.
Posted on February 14, 2019
Sport and living an active lifestyle are two things that Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, feels quite strongly about.
Posted on January 28, 2019
Sunette Viljoen (TuksAthletics), proved on Saturday at Pilditch with her throw of 61.64m there is no keeping a real champion down.
Posted on January 24, 2019
Bosman and Parry decided to team up again this year with the aim of getting her to give a good account of herself during Comrades.
Posted on November 01, 2018
100 years of excellence was capped last night with the announcement that Caster Semenya and LJ van Zyl are the Tuks Athletes of the Century.
Posted on October 25, 2018
Few local female track athletes can claim to have truly challenged the stopwatch, but these UP-Tuks athletes can: Carina Horn, Geraldine Pillay and Marcel Winkler are the fastest, third-fastest and fourth-fastest South African female sprinters respectively.
Posted on October 22, 2018
Getting to improve his best time in the 100 metres by 0.09s will be Akani Simbine’s most significant challenge next year.
Posted on October 02, 2018
Sport and Recreation South Africa, in collaboration with the Department of Private Law and the Centre for Sports Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to a conference on 'Eligibility to participate in women's sport' from 11 to 12 October 2018.
Posted on September 27, 2018
Every time Prudence Sekgodiso (TuksSport High School) steps onto the track to race, she got only one goal, and that is to win.
Posted on September 13, 2018
Carina Swiegelaar (Tuks) was planning on just having fun during the South African Cross Country Championships in Port Elizabeth; however, she surprised herself by winning a silver medal in the 4km race.
Posted on September 02, 2018
Imagine winning a gold medal at the South African Athletics Championships not once actually training in the event in which you are victorious.
Posted on August 06, 2018
From a Tuks/HPC perspective, the performance of Cornel Fredericks deserves a special mention. Fredericks was second in the 400m-hurdles. His performance proves that perseverance and dedication do pay off. It is the first time in four years that he had won a medal at a major international event.
Posted on August 03, 2018
It was mission accomplished for Akani Simbine yesterday when he won the 100m at the African Athletics Championships in Asaba, Nigeria.
Posted on July 31, 2018
The 21-year-old Chris Moleya (Tuks) could just win his first gold medal in the high jump at the African Athletics Championships in Asaba, Nigeria.
Posted on July 23, 2018
Long Jump star Luvo Manyonga and race walker Lebogang Shange were the best of a large South African contingent at the 11th leg of the IAAF Diamond League series held in London, England over the weekend.
Posted on July 17, 2018
There seems to be no stopping Rikenette Steenkamp at the moment as she keeps on winning when she lines up in Europe to race the 100m-hurdles.
Posted on July 15, 2018
Zazini, TuksSport High School learner won the 400m-hurdles yesterday during the IAAF Junior World Championships in Tampere, Finland in 49.42s.
Posted on July 10, 2018
When Silusapho Dingiswayo (TuksSport High School) settles in his starting blocks tomorrow to race the 110m-hurdles at the IAAF Junior World Championships in Tampere, Finland it will prove that where there is a will, there is away.
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