Posted on July 10, 2018
If there is one word that Sokwakhana Zazini (TuksSport High School) truly hates it is losing. Taking this into account it won’t be a surprise if he wins the 400m-hurdles at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Tampere, Finland.
Posted on July 03, 2018
One of the impressive statistics in South African athletics is that since 2014 there was at least one new sprinter who had managed to break the 10 seconds barrier in the 100 metres.
Posted on July 02, 2018
Rikenette Steenkamp set a new South African record this afternoon when she won the 100m-hurdles in 12.81s at the Resisprint International Meeting in Switzerland.
Posted on June 28, 2018
Whoever wants to win the 100m on Saturday during the Diamond League Meeting in Paris will have to run fast, really fast.
Posted on June 14, 2018
Akani Simbine raced to a second place finish in the 100m last night during the IAAF World Challenge Meeting in Ostrava.
Posted on June 11, 2018
Rikenette Steenkamp dipped under 13 seconds in the 100m-hurdles for a second time in less than a week when she competed at the Diamond League Meeting in Stockholm on Sunday.
Posted on June 05, 2018
Rikenette Steenkamp set a new South African record last night during Memorial Josefa Odlozila Meeting in Prague when she ran 12.91s in the 100m-hurdles.
Posted on June 01, 2018
When Rikenette Steenkamp starts her campaign in Prague it won’t just be about winning 100m-hurdles.
Posted on May 30, 2018
To become a dominant force in the 100 metres is the goal Akani Simbine had set himself for 2018.
Posted on May 23, 2018
The fictional characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee are known to most, but what people might not know is that Tuks got a real-life version – Thando and Tebogo – and they are indeed much faster.
Posted on May 10, 2018
Wenda Nel will be challenged by champions on Saturday when she lines up to compete in the 400m-hurdles at the Shanghai Diamond League Meeting.
Posted on May 07, 2018
A lifetime of dreaming coming true is how Carina Horn describes her 10.98s race at the Doha Diamond League Meeting on Friday.
Posted on May 06, 2018
Carina Horn took being the trailblazer of South African women’s sprinting to a whole new level yesterday during the Doha Diamond League Meeting when she clocked 10.98s to become the first to dip under 11 seconds.
Posted on May 03, 2018
Patience, persistence and resilience will be Cornel Fredericks’s motto in the build-up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Posted on May 03, 2018
Carina Horn might dip under 11 seconds tomorrow during the 100m at the Diamond League Meeting in Doha.
Posted on May 02, 2018
On 29 April 2018, Professor Steve Cornelius, Sports Law expert and Head of the Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, resigned from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Disciplinary Tribunal in protest against the...
Posted on April 30, 2018
Rikenette Steenkamp (Tuks) is going to set a new South African record in the 100m-hurdles the question is just when she is going to do so.
Posted on April 23, 2018
LJ van Zyl, has decided to put his spikes away for good, bringing to an end an athletics career that spanned nearly 17 years and included winning three Commonwealth Games medals and two World Championships medals.
Posted on April 14, 2018
For the second consecutive Commonwealth Games, the South African 4x100m-relay team set a new national record. However, the big difference this time around is that they also got to win the silver medal.
Posted on April 13, 2018
Team South Africa’s quartet (an all-Tuks Team) safely put themselves in contention for yet another medal when they won their heat at the Carrara Stadium.
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