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...
Posted on September 03, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Ntando Mahlangu wins his second gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in Japan Ntando Mahlangu streaked to a second gold medal this afternoon, winning the men’s T61 200 metres in 23.59s at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. He timed his acceleration to perfection. With 50...
Posted on August 29, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Daniel Du Plessis hopes to inspire during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in Japan Daniel du Plessis made a decision eight years ago to amputate his legs. It changed his life as he will be making his Paralympic debut when he lines up to race the men's 100m T64 in Tokyo.
Posted on August 28, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Ntando Mahlangu coached from Pretoria to set a world record at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan When Ntando Mahlangu jumped 7.17 metres, setting a world record to win gold in the men’s T63 long jump at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan there, was a moment of...
Posted on August 24, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Ntando Mahlangu sights set on winning gold in the men’s 200m T61 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan Not that he ever would, but Ntando Mahlangu can claim he had achieved more in 19 years than most people would in a lifetime. When only 14, he won a silver medal...
Posted on August 16, 2021
The Tuks sprinter, Benjamin Richardson (who is a TuksSport High School learner-athlete part of the TuksAthletics Academy), will race to win from Wednesday when he competes in the 100 metres at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. "The goal is always gold. It does not...
Posted on August 01, 2021
#TuksAthletics: Akani Simbine fourth in Tokyo 2020 Olympics men’s 100m-final Italy's Lamont Jacobs is the new Olympic 100 metres champion after winning this afternoon in a time of 9.80s. His winning time is the second-fastest for the season. Fred Kearly (USA) was second in the...
Posted on July 31, 2021
The 400m-hurdles for women promises to be one of the highlights of the Tokyo Olympic Games, especially with the three of the fastest athletes ever who are going to duel it out for gold. The 21-year-old Sydney McLaughlin (USA) set a new world record last month during the US Olympic Trials...
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