Posted on March 16, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak is having a severe impact on the international sports scene. Still, for now, it is business as usual for Akani Simbine (Adidas-Tuks). He is only focussed on being fast. Yesterday morning during the Gauteng North Championships at Tuks he won his 100-meter heat in a time...
Posted on March 10, 2020
The Tuks athletics track is where some of the most fantastic breakthrough moments in South African athletics happened.
Posted on March 08, 2020
Zinzi Chabangu (UJ) set the first South African senior athletics record for the season when yesterday she won the women's triple jump with a 14.02 metres effort during a league meeting at Tuks.
Posted on February 17, 2020
Othaniel Phahlane proved on Saturday with his victory in the Bestmed-Tuks Marathon that good things happen to those who can persevere.
Posted on February 17, 2020
When you are 88 years old, it might seem a good idea to slow down a bit in life, but not if you are Deidre Larkin, she is still challenging the stopwatch every weekend.
Posted on February 16, 2020
The Tuks-Puma athlete, Rikenette Steenkamp, set a new South African indoor record yesterday in Glasgow by running a time of 8.29s in the 60m-hurdles.
Posted on February 13, 2020
Are you still running was the question last year that got Henricho Bruintjies (a former South African 100m record-holder) to have a rethink on how his athletics career was playing out.
Posted on February 12, 2020
Tuks long jumper Jovan van Vuuren has a good reason for wanting to go past the eight-metre barrier next month, and it is not only to do with the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Posted on February 04, 2020
The male sprinters of the TuksSport High School dominated during the Twizza Super School Series Grand Finale winning no less than five gold medals.
Posted on January 31, 2020
Whoever beats Thabang Hlohlo (TuksSport High School) tomorrow in the 100 metres during the Twizza Super School Series Grand Finale at Tuks can definitely claim to be one of the fastest schoolboy sprinters in South Africa.
Posted on January 30, 2020
The one thing that will be a done deal on 15 February when Gauteng's top long-distance athletes line up to race the Bestmed Tuks Marathon is that Stephen Mokoka will be on the starters line on time.
Posted on January 30, 2020
The former South African high jump champion, Chris Moleya, will be competing for the first time in an indoor athletics meeting on Sunday in Trinec, Czech Republic.
Posted on January 24, 2020
Getting to help the South African men's 4x100m-relay team to medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games is not the only goal Paul Gorries set himself.
Posted on January 23, 2020
What began with an advert in a community newspaper has turned into an exciting journey for South Africa's foremost sprinter, Akani Simbine, and his coach, Werner Prinsloo.
Posted on January 20, 2020
Last year only five South African female athletes got to compete at the World Championships in Doha while there were 22 male athletes in the national team. Dominque Scott in the 5000m was the only female athlete to reach a final.
Posted on September 30, 2019
Clarence Munyai is one step closer to the realisation of a long-time dream after he finished second in his 200m heat during the IAAF World Championship in Doha running 20.29s.
Posted on September 27, 2019
Tuks's coaches must be doing something right as they coach ten of the 31 athletes who will be competing from Friday 27 September at the IAAF World Championships in Doha.
Posted on September 27, 2019
Bragging rights to being the fastest man on the planet for 2019 is what is going to be at stake when the world's top sprinters line up to race the 100m from 27 September at the IAAF World Championship in Doha.
Posted on September 27, 2019
The South African 100m champion Tebogo Mamathu's moment to "shine" is going to happen tomorrow afternoon when she races the heats at the IAAF World Championship in Doha.
Posted on September 25, 2019
The national 100m-hurdles record holder, Rikenette Steenkamp (Tuks), has already made South African sports history without having run a single stride at the IAAF World Championships in Doha.
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