Posted on August 07, 2022
South African hurdler, Zenéy van der Walt of TuksAthletics, picks up a bronze medal at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England
Posted on July 13, 2022
For a while, the South African men’s long jump champion, Jovan van Vuuren, has predicted that he is ready to go "big". Maybe it will happen over the weekend during the 2022 World Athletics Champs in Oregon. It certainly has been the Tuks athlete's best season to date. He set a new...
Posted on June 16, 2022
Losing a 20km walk race by a hundredth of a second at the recent 2022 African Athletics Championships in Mauritius could be considered a setback, but the result does not faze, Wayne Snyman, as he has a definite goal. The 37-year-old and two-time South African race walking champion plans to...
Posted on June 03, 2022
TuksAthletics: Prudence Sekgodiso will make her Diamond League debut in Rabat The 20-year-old, current TuksAthletics club member, Prudence Sekgodiso (TuksSport High School matriculant & TuksAthletics Academy graduate), has done what no other South African athlete could do this season. That...
Posted on May 13, 2022
Benjamin Richardson, 18, is the South African Under-20 champion in the 100m and 200m events. During the recent South African Senior Track and Field Championships in Cape Town, he won a bronze medal in the 200 metres.
Posted on April 25, 2022
Jovan van Vuuren brilliantly executed "cometh the hour cometh the man" to win the gold medal in the men’s senior long jump at the 2022 ASA Senior Track & Field National Champs in Cape Town. On Sunday, 24 April, at the start of the last round, the Tuks student was second. Cheswill...
Posted on April 23, 2022
Getting older is seemingly not slowing Wayne Snyman down. This morning, he won the men’s 20km race walk at the 2022 ASA Senior Track & Field National Champs in Cape Town. This was for the sixth time, clinching the national title. The "Old Man" of TuksAthletics was even asked to set...
Posted on April 21, 2022
#TuksAthletics: Bradley Nkoana is the youngest to medal in the men’s senior 100m at the ASA Senior Track & Field National Champs On Thursday, 21 April, the 17-year old, Bradley Nkoana, became the youngest sprinter to win a medal in the men’s senior 100m at the ASA Senior Track...
Posted on April 19, 2022
Watching South Africa's youngest female sprint champion crowned and possibly a new record in the 100m-hurdles are two highlights that fans could look forward to during the 2022 ASA Senior Track & Field National Champs in Cape Town.
Posted on April 01, 2022
TuksAthletics: Viwe Jingqi of TuksSport High School set a new South Africa U-18 record three times in one day South Africa has got a new sprinting sensation. She is 16, her name is Viwe Jingqi and she fast really fast. She proved it today at the 2022 South African Junior and Youth Athletics...
Posted on March 29, 2022
TuksAthletics: Taylon Bieldt sparks rivalry in South African women’s hurdles racing Real rivalries in South African female athletics are a rarity. One athlete has dominated each event for a few years now, but things are changing, judging by the World Athletics Rankings. Tuks's Zeney...
Posted on March 19, 2022
The Tuks athlete certainly is in good form at the moment. During the recent ASA Grand Prix Meeting in Bloemfontein, he won the men’s long jump with an 8.14m effort. A few days before that, during the 2022 Gauteng North Championships held at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium, he won, jumping...
Posted on March 15, 2022
TuksAthletics: Marione Fourie is now only the third South African female 100m-hurdler to dip under 13 seconds The South African 100m-hurdles champion, Marione Fourie, managed to do something no other local hurdler had been able to do. That is to run a sub 13 seconds race in South Africa....
Posted on March 13, 2022
TuksAthletics: Zeney van der Walt qualifies for the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, United States
Posted on March 07, 2022
TuksAthletics: Athletics Foundation Trust (AFT) sprinters at TuksSport High School set to keep on pushing boundaries
Posted on March 05, 2022
TuksAtheltics: Marione Fourie confident about becoming the third South African female 100m hurdler to dip under-13s Exactly two. That is how many South African female hurdlers managed to dip under 13 seconds in the 100m-hurdles, but if Marione Fourie can have her way, this statistic will...
Posted on January 22, 2022
#TuksAthletics: Wayne Snyman sets a new men’s race walk national record at the 2022 ASA 35km Race Walking Champs If his body allows for it, Wayne Snyman might just do something that few South African race walkers have ever done before. That is competing in two events at the World...
Posted on November 16, 2021
The 2020 Olympic gold medallist and World Record holder, Tatjana Schoenmaker (now a TuksSport High School matriculant), is the University of Pretoria Sportswoman of the Year. On Monday, 15 November, at the Future Africa Campus, it was also announced that she is the TuksSport Newsmaker of the...
Posted on October 14, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Come 2022, Werner Prinsloo wants Akani Simbine to be consistent when he races Next year, consistency and not medals will be the main focus when South Africa's fastest man, Akani Simbine, lines up to race the 100 metres. Some might ask why. The Tuks based sprinter has, after...
Posted on September 16, 2021
#TuksAthletics: "I feel like a 'newborn baby' who has got to relearn how to train," says Carina Horn The South African women's record holder over 100 metres, Carina Horn, is back on the athletics track after two years. She got suspended in September 2019 after testing positive for the...
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