Posted on March 16, 2018
Carina Horn raced to a time of 11.03s yesterday at the South African Championships at Tuks improving De Klerk’s record set on 20 April 1990 by 0.03s
Posted on March 16, 2018
Yesterday at the national championships at Tuks the 23-year old won the women’s hammer throw for women with a distance of 58.97m. Her performance ranks her fourth on South Africa’s all-time list.
Posted on March 10, 2018
The South African champion, Akani Simbine, spoiled fans over the last two years with his speedy exploits on home soil so some might have been slightly surprised by his winning time of 10.05s in the 100m during last night’s Liquid Telecom Athletics Grand Prix-meeting at Tuks.
Posted on March 09, 2018
Anaso Jobodwana has set himself the challenge of becoming only the sixth South African sprinter to dip under ten seconds in the 100m.
Posted on March 09, 2018
The South African 400m-hurdles champion, Wenda Nel proved last night during the Liquid Telecom Athletics Grand Prix-meeting at Tuks that she was a quick learner when she raced to a winning time of 55.31s.
Posted on March 07, 2018
On 7 February 1983 in Bloemfontein Ilze Wicksell won the 1000 metres to set a new South African record by winning in a time of 2:37.2 This record still stands 35 years later.
Posted on March 07, 2018
Anaso Jobodwana (Tuks) will be hoping for it to be third time lucky when he takes on the current world champion, Justin Gatlin (USA), tomorrow over 150m during the Liquid Telecom Athletics Grand Prix-meeting at Tuks.
Posted on March 07, 2018
As part of a Youth Empowerment Program which was held in collaboration with the US Embassy at the TuksAthletics Track Mechelle Freeman, Natasha Hastings and Sharrieffa Barksdale all former USA Olympians shared valuable tips with TuksSport High School athletes.
Posted on March 05, 2018
It was oh so close, but on Friday night UP-Tuks kept a proud tradition going when they won the first Varsity Athletics meeting on their home track.
Posted on March 02, 2018
Anaso Jobodwana and Clarence Munyai 1st and 2nd respecitvely over the line in the final event of the evening at the inaugural Liquid Telecom Athletix Grand Prix Meeting in Ruimsig on Thursday, 01 March 2018.
Posted on March 02, 2018
Tebogo Mamathu won the women’s 100m last night at the Liquid Telecom Athletics Grand Prix Meeting in Ruimsig. Her winning time of 11.47s is 0.01s faster than the time she ran the past weekend at the Gauteng North Championships.
Posted on March 01, 2018
Many athletes would describe a year in which they won an African and South African title as a success, but not Taylon Bieldt as she knows she has not performed at her best.
Posted on February 27, 2018
Friday when Horn settles down in her starting blocks to race the 60 metres sprint at the IAAF Indoor World Championships in Birmingham, her goal will be to run the final.
Posted on February 27, 2018
Thembo Monareng (TuksAthletics) will have big shoes to fill on Friday when he competes in the 100 metres at the Varsity Athletics Meeting at Tuks.
Posted on February 26, 2018
Lebogang Shange, the HPC-athlete won the 20km race walk during the Memorial Jerzy Hausleber Meeting in Mexico in 1:24:32 with Carlos Sanchez (Mexico) second in 1:24:59 and Mauricio Arteaga (Ecuador) third in 1:25:10.
Posted on February 25, 2018
The 20-year-old Clarence Munyai (Tuks) joined an elite group of South African sprinters on Saturday when he “blitzed” the 100 metres in a time of 10.10s at the Gauteng North Championships.
Posted on February 25, 2018
Having been robbed on Saturday by the wind from running a new best in the 100 metres does not faze Anaso Jobodwana (TuksAthletics). It, in fact, motivates him.
Posted on February 22, 2018
One of the most disconcerting statistics at the moment in South African men’s athletics is that the last time any 400m-hurdler has been able to dip under 49 seconds in a local race was in 2014. The last time it happened internationally was in 2016.
Posted on February 21, 2018
The Tuks athletics track and speedy performances by the South African sprinters over 100 metres have become synonym over the last four years.
Posted on February 19, 2018
There seems to be no stopping Stephan Mokoka (Boxer) in local races at the moment.
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