Posted on August 17, 2017
Any chance of an athlete breaking the world long jump or triple jump records at a specially organised event by Tignes Ski-resort in the French Alps got blown away by an unpredictable wind.
Posted on August 17, 2017
The 2017 athletics season has been a real rollercoaster ride for the South African 400m-hurdles champion, Le Roux Hamman, with definite highlights but unfortunately also disappointments.
Posted on August 15, 2017
The world long jump champion, Luvo Manyonga, has his sights set on the world record for quite a while now and just maybe tomorrow in France it might happen.
Posted on August 07, 2017
Luvo Manyonga proved Friday night by winning the gold medal in the long jump at the IAAF World Championships in London that nothing, but absolutely nothing is impossible in the sport if you are prepared to put your mind to a specific goal and seriously work towards it.
Posted on August 04, 2017
SA athletes in action at World Championships
Posted on August 02, 2017
Clarence Munyai might only be the second youngest athlete to compete in the 200m at the IAAF World Championships in London, but that does not mean he is in awe of his older more experienced rivals.
Posted on August 01, 2017
Team South Africa departed last night for the biennial IAAF World Championships starting in London on Friday, 4 August until 13 August.
Posted on July 17, 2017
Two world champions and two world record holders! There are not many high schools in the world that can boast with such an achievement. TuksSport High School can.
Posted on July 13, 2017
Tshenolo Lemao won South Africa’s first gold medal at the IAAF World Youth Championships (under-20) in Nairobi tonight winning the 100m in 10.57s.
Posted on July 12, 2017
The South African 100m-hurdles-champion, Rikenette Steenkamp, raced to her fourth victory in Europe last night when she won in Gothenburg.
Posted on July 11, 2017
Having set a world youth record in the 400m-hurdles earlier this season means that Sokwakhana Zazini is the one everyone will want to beat at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Nairobi (12-16 July).
Posted on July 10, 2017
George Kusche had a victorious start to his international campaign yesterday when he won the 800m at the Brussels Grand Prix-meeting in a time of 1:47.98.
Posted on July 07, 2017
Akani Simbine sprinted to a third place in the 100 meters at last night’s Diamond League Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Posted on July 05, 2017
Simbine last night finished second in the 100m as well as in the 200m at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial Meeting in Budapest.
Posted on July 03, 2017
The Tuks/HPC-athlete won in a time of 12.92s which is 0.02s faster than the record set by Corien Botha in 1998. Unfortunately, the wind from behind was measured at 2.01m/s which means it was too strong by 0.01m/s for Steenkamp’s time to be official.
Posted on June 30, 2017
Henricho Bruintjies, Emile Erasmus and Wenda Nel were the three South Africans doing duty on 28 June at the Athletics Meeting in Nancy, France.
Posted on June 29, 2017
Last night in Ostrava Rikenette Steenkamp has done what she has been threatening to do the whole season and that was to dip under 13 seconds in the 100m-hurdles. She is only the second South African athlete to do so.
Posted on June 29, 2017
South Africa’s, Wayde van Niekerk and Clarence Munyai, probably made athletics history last night at the Golden Spike Meeting in Ostrava by becoming the first athletes of the same country to set new world bests in different categories but in the same race.
Posted on June 26, 2017
Thando Roto proved he is on track to run a second sub ten second time in the 100 metres in the next few weeks when he won the 100 metres in 10.11s on Saturday at the Bilboa-meeting in Spain.
Posted on June 23, 2017
The good news for South African athletics fans is that the world's best long jumper, Luvo Manyonga, has only sustained a slight ankle injury and is already busy with rehabilitation.
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