Posted on July 24, 2023
The words no athlete ever wants to hear are, "Your career is over. You will never compete again," especially when you are in the prime of your career. Unfortunately, it does happen. In March, before the Gauteng North Athletics Championships, Jovan van Vuuren had to hear this "death sentence"...
Posted on July 03, 2023
The 21-year-old Marione Fourie recently set a new South African record in Switzerland when she won the women’s 100-meter hurdles in a time of 12.55 seconds. Her winning time is 0.21 seconds faster than Taylon Bieldt's record four weeks ago in Italy. The Tuks sports science student is now...
Posted on June 23, 2023
Judging by her results over the last four years, the MBChB student at UP-Tuks is winning the "battle against time." In 2020, her best time in the two-lap race was 2:13.96. This season, in April, she clocked 2:03.28. It equates to being nearly 10 seconds faster than she was in 2020. Caster...
Posted on June 07, 2023
Taylon Bieldt recently set a new South African record when she won the women’s 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.76 seconds at the 2° Meeting Citta' Di Lucca in Italy. The Tuks alumna’s winning time is 0.05 seconds faster than the South African record set by TuksAthletics alumna...
Posted on May 19, 2023
The South African 800m champion, Edmund du Plessis, will surely try and prove that you can't keep a good man down when he lines up tomorrow to compete in the upcoming 2023 Germiston Grand Prix Meeting. The Tuks athlete, who only turned 21 two weeks ago, is having a good season. Of the eight...
Posted on May 02, 2023
Tuks junior athletes medal at the 2023 CAA African U18 and U20 Track & Field Championships in Lusaka.
Posted on April 13, 2023
On Wednesday, 12 April, the South African 100m-hurdles champion, Marione Fourie, continued her dominance, winning with a time of 13.01s, during the first leg of the 2023 ASA Grand Prix Series hosted at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium. This was her 15th consecutive victory. The last time...
Posted on April 06, 2023
Judging by the results, hurdling seems part and parcel of Chane Kok's DNA. The BCom Business Management student at Tuks won gold with a time of 13.81 in the women’s U-20 100m hurdles at the recent 2023 ASA Youth and Junior Track & Field Championships in Pietermaritzburg. A week...
Posted on April 01, 2023
If the 20-year-old, Marione Fourie, can have her way, there might be a South African record on the cards when she lines up to race the women’s 100m hurdles at the ASA Track & Field Championships in Potchefstroom. The BSportSci student at the University of Pretoria is undoubtedly in good...
Posted on March 22, 2023
The 19-year-old high jumper, Brian Raats, will attempt to do what no South African athlete has been able to do over the last ten years, which is to jump 2.28 metres. Over the last few years, South Africa's senior high jumpers have yet to come up with the magic jump that will get people...
Posted on March 11, 2023
The South African long jump champion and 2022 Commonwealth Games medallist, Jovan van Vuuren's 2023 campaign, has ended without a proper lift-off. Last year, he was named the University of Pretoria Sportswoman of the Year. Early into the new season, the Tuks athlete sustained a slight tear in...
Posted on March 01, 2023
It is often said that one run can change your day, and many runs can change your life. This is undoubtedly true of the late Prof Vollie Spies. She abided by the motto that everyone was born to run. It did not matter if you did not run as efficiently or as fast as others. Just run. "Prof...
Posted on February 08, 2023
Philani Buthelezi is a man of few words, but then again, he does not have to say anything; he lets his legs do the talking. That is why the 33-year-old Murray & Roberts Running Club athlete will be one the athletes to watch on Saturday, 18 February during the 2023 Bestmed TuksRace....
Posted on February 03, 2023
One of South Africa’s athletics legends, Rikenette Steenkamp, has decided to put her spikes away for good. The Tuks athlete has undoubtedly been the "boss lady" of 100m-hurdles racing since 2010 in South Africa. In 47 local races, she has been beaten only twice in the short hurdles. It...
Posted on January 30, 2023
The 47-year-old and 2016 women’s Comrades Marathon champion, Charne Bosman, is one of the first well-known athletes to indicate that she will be running the 21.1km event of the Bestmed TuksRace on Saturday, 18 February 2023. It is no surprise. Like a bee can't resist the nectar of...
Posted on January 28, 2023
The UP-Tuks Sportsman of the Year 2022, Jovan van Vuuren, says he has kept things simple regarding his new year's resolutions as a long jumper. "Every time I line up, it will be like it is the last time I compete. I am not going to take anything for granted. A lot is at stake with the World...
Posted on January 17, 2023
Athletes wanting to run a personal best time over 21.1 or 10 kilometres should enter to race at the Bestmed Tuks Race on Sunday, 18 February 2023. The TuksRoadRunning Administrator at TuksSport, Jet Moses, is confident that athletes who have put in the hours on the road should clock fast...
Posted on January 16, 2023
Running enthusiasts of all experience levels are welcome to join this fun-filled family event. Athletes can enter the 21.1km half-marathon, the 10km or 5km races, or the 1km fun run/walk.
Posted on August 22, 2022
Since 2016, name a South African coach who has athletes medalling at the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, World Athletics Championships and the Commonwealth Games? There is a real chance that very few sports fans will know the answer to this. At the same time, it does not faze Neil Cornelius...
Posted on August 08, 2022
Jovan van Vuuren of TuksAthletics, is the fourth South African men’s long jumper to medal at the Commonwealth Games On day seven at the Birmingham2022 Commonwealth Games, Jovan van Vuuren of TuksAthletics, did something in Birmingham that few other South African men’s long jumpers...
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