Posted on March 05, 2016
Luvo Manyonga (Tuks) qualified for the Olympic Games this morning when he jumped 8.20 metres in a league meeting at Pilditch.
Posted on February 09, 2016
An additional five metres and 33 centimetres is what Chad Herman, South African under-23 javelin champion, needs in order to earn his passport to the Olympic Games in Rio.
Posted on January 25, 2016
On behalf of the University of Pretoria, it is my privilege to welcome you as a member of the TuksAthletics Club for 2016. We are honoured to have so many young and talented athletes, like yourself, joining the Club Where Champions Are Made.
Posted on September 09, 2015
Gift Leutela won his 2nd gold medal and again ran faster than the existing SA record but unfortunately the wind was too strong for it to be recognized as a national record.
Posted on September 09, 2015
The Annual Lester Mills Memorial Night Race will take place on 16 September 2015. There will be a 10km and a 5km race
Posted on September 08, 2015
The 16-year-old Gift Leotlela (TuksSport High School/TuksAthletics) continued South Africa’s “sprint revolution” when he won the 100m at the Youth Commonwealth Games in Samoa in a time of 10.20 seconds on the 7th of September 2015.
Posted on September 08, 2015
TuksAthletics' Renate van Tonder is currently competing at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Apia, Samoa.
Posted on August 24, 2015
The following TuksAthletics athletes are currently competing at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Beijing: LJ van Zyl, Henricho Bruintjies, Akani Simbine, Cornel Fredericks, Orazio Cremona, Marc Mundell, Wenda Nel and Carina Horn.
Posted on August 21, 2015
The IAAf World Athletics Championships starts tomorrow morning, 22 August 2015, (SA time) in Beijing and we have several athletes from TuksAthletics who will be in action over the weekend.
Posted on August 05, 2015
The team that will be participating at the 11th African Games in Brazzaville, Congo from 4 to 19 September 2015 has been announced by SASCOC.
Posted on July 09, 2015
South Africa's golf and athletics teams injected some extra energy into the nation's campaign on day six of the World Student Games in Gwangju, getting off to cracking starts as their codes kicked off on Wednesday.
Posted on July 09, 2015
Akani Simbine won the 100 m at the World Student Games in a time of 9,97 seconds!
Posted on July 07, 2015
National 100m record holder Henricho Bruintjies has withdrawn on the eve of the track and field competition at the World Student Games, due to injur
Posted on July 02, 2015
South Africa's Akani Simbine joined a select group of sprinters on Wednesday when he won the 100m at the 20th European Athletics Classics Meeting in Slovenia in a time of 9.99s.
Posted on July 01, 2015
Only one tenth of a second is still standing between South Africa’s best women’s sprinter, Carina Horn, and a possible new South African record in the 100m.
Posted on June 26, 2015
Carina Horn proved last night with her winning time of 11.16s in the 100 metres at the Paavo Nurmi Meeting in Finland that the hunt for the South African record is still on.
Posted on June 25, 2015
It is said that bad things usually happen in threes.
Posted on June 23, 2015
Being talented can sometimes also be a burden, especially if you are a young South African athlete.
Posted on June 22, 2015
Sometimes you have to lose something to really appreciate it.
Posted on June 09, 2015
Henricho Bruintjies became the fastest South African ever at coastal level, merely 4 days after Akani Simbine set a seasonal best and fastest coastal time of 10.08, when he won the 100m at the Josef Odlozil Memorial Meeting in Prague in a personal best of 10.06.
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