Posted on May 24, 2016
Luvo Manyonga (Tuks) will start his international long-jump campaign in Rome on 2 June 2016. He took a short break from competition after the South African Championships in Stellenbosch because of an injury to his right ankle.
Posted on May 23, 2016
Lindsay Hanekom is officially the South African Open and South African Students 400-hurdles champion and has accomplished all his goals. Unofficially, however, he hopes to qualify for the final at the Olympic Games in Rio.
Posted on May 21, 2016
Tuks/hpc described LJ van Zyl's victory as 'Long overdue!' after winning first place last night in the 400-hurdles at the Ostrava Golden Spike Meeting.
Posted on May 18, 2016
Tuks/hpc athlete Carina Horn will compete in the Diamond League Meeting in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday. Judging by the provisional start list, it may be the ideal opportunity for her to at least become the lone holder of the South African record. The fact that Horn is currently one of South...
Posted on May 17, 2016
On Friday, 20 May 2016, Clarence Munyai (TuksSport High School) will live his dream when he races against Trayon Bromell (USA) in the 150-metre sprint at the Great City Games in Manchester.
Posted on May 15, 2016
South African 400-hurdles champion, LJ van Zyl, came fourth in 49.13s at the Diamond League Meeting in Shanghai yesterday. It is his fastest time so far this season.
Posted on May 03, 2016
South African 400 m hurdles champion, Wenda Nel (Tuks/hpc), will be in for a tough challenge when she settles into her starting blocks for the first Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday, 6 May.
Posted on April 26, 2016
It would be easy to write Orazio Cremona of after he won the South African shot put title with only a distance of 19.85m and also won the ASA Night Series-meet which was held in Port Elizabeth with a distance of 20.05m.
Posted on April 18, 2016
'Perseverance overcomes failure and turns the extraordinary achievement into great success.' These words certainly apply to Carley Lomax, a visually impaired student at the University of Pretoria (UP), who graduated with an MA degree in Recreation and Sport Management at the University's Autumn...
Posted on April 17, 2016
Eighteen-year-old Clarence Munyai (TuksSport High School) became one of the youngest male sprinters to win a title at the South African Senior Championships when he won the 200 m sprint in a time of 20,74 s at the South African Senior Championships in Stellenbosch on Saturday, 16 April 2016.
Posted on April 17, 2016
Lebogang Shange could have set a new South African 20km race walk record at the South African Senior Athletics Championship in Stellenbosch yesterday if he was a bit more focused during the early stages of the race.
Posted on April 13, 2016
Depending on the weather on Friday, 15 April 2016, the winning time in the women’s 100 metres final at the South African Athletics Championships in Stellenbosch could well be the fastest time run in the event for the past ten years.
Posted on April 11, 2016
It is generally expected that Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruintjies will battle it out for the honour of being crowned the fastest man in the country at the South African Athletics Championships, which will take place in Stellenbosch on 16 April 2016.
Posted on March 22, 2016
When TuksSport High School athletes Clarence Munyai and Gift Leatlelo set off to challenge the stopwatch in the 100m and 200m sprints, they usually go fast, faster and fastest.
Posted on March 22, 2016
TuksAthletics hurdler, LJ van Zyl (Tuks/hpc) maintained his unbeaten streak when he won the 400-hurdles in 49.74s on the 22 March 2016 at the ASA Night Series-event in Cape Town.
Posted on March 16, 2016
A star-studded Tuks team will confidently make their way to Johannesburg for the first leg of the Varsity Athletics meeting on Friday 18 March. Led by the new 100m national record holder, Akani Simbine, it’s possible that the Tuks team is out to set more records tumbling in both field and...
Posted on March 13, 2016
LJ Van Zyl (Tuks/HPC) won the 400-hurdles at the Gauteng-North Championships in 50.09 seconds. He was the first to admit that his time was nothing to get excited about but he was satisfied for now. There is still a long season ahead and it is important for him to peak when it really matters.
Posted on March 13, 2016
After winning the 100 metres at the Gauteng North Championships in 10.01 seconds yesterday, Akani Simbine (Tuks/HPC) said jokingly that local athletics fans are being spoiled. He was referring to the fact that his performance was totally overshadowed by Wayde Van Niekerk’s awesome 9.98s...
Posted on March 08, 2016
Akani Simbine (Tuks/HPC) rewrote history with his record-breaking 100m performance at the ASA Night Series Meeting at Pilditch. Simbine’s time was 0.01s faster than the South African record of 9.97s that he previously shared with Henricho Bruintjies.
Posted on March 06, 2016
Eben Beukes (Tuks) is certainly no one-hit wonder that became abundantly clear on Saturday when he won the pole vault clearing the bar at 5.50 metres during a league meeting at Pilditch.
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