#TuksAthletics: Danie Cornelius, TuksAthletics Head of Programme predicts SA 4x100m men’s relay team will medal in Poland and Tokyo

Posted on January 31, 2021

The South African men's 4x100m relay team will medal at the World Relay Championships in Poland in May and at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Given South Africa's 4x100m-relay team's performance history, it is a bold statement to make. To Danie Cornelius, the national relay team's manager, it is a near...

#TuksSport: Mr Steven Ball, new TuksSport Director wants student-athletes to strive to make a difference

Posted on January 29, 2021

Many years ago, a young boy in Ladysmith loved nothing more than to do all kinds of sports and dive into swimming pools. Like many youngsters, he had hoped to become one of the best. When he realised early on it would not happen, he did not get discouraged. Through his participation, he had...

#TuksAthletics: Speed is Thando Dlodlo’s passion and to him, it is not only about beating the stopwatch on a synthetic track

Posted on January 20, 2021

Thando Dlodlo will be all "Striped-up" when he lines up to race the 100 metres for the first time this season as he has joined the TuksAthletics Club. For South African athletics, it is good news. Every member of the South African 4x100m-relay team that set the new national and Africa record...

#TuksAthletics: "At times during the current pandemic, it feels like we go one step forward and two backwards." — Rikenette Steenkamp

Posted on January 16, 2021

The South African 100m-hurdles record-holder, Rikenette Steenkamp's plans of maybe competing indoors in Europe got derailed when she tested positive for COVID-19. The Puma-Tuks athlete has been confined to bed for the past week due to severe headaches and other flu-like symptoms. Her energy...

#TuksAtheltics: Emile 'Big Man' Erasmus keen to challenge the stopwatch again

Posted on January 14, 2021

Emile Erasmus of Tuks, could be described as the South African sprinter who got lost in action, but it will be a mistake to forget about the "big man". COVID-19 pandemic allowing 2021 could be the year in which he resumes his battle with the stopwatch in earnest. If he "wins" it is guaranteed...

#TuksSport: Q&A with Fundiswa Hlobo at TuksAthletics and her advice to aspiring athletics administrators

Posted on November 19, 2020

Fundiswa Hlobo is a TuksAthletics Academy Manager at TuksSport. Last year, she served as a Team Leader of the USSA Athletics team at the World University Games in Napoli, Italy.

#TuksAthletics: Roberts excited to make a 110m-hurdles comeback

Posted on November 06, 2020

Is less better? The Tuks athlete, Rivaldo Roberts, will hopefully know by the end of April next year whether his decision to switch back to 110m-hurdles is the right one.

#TuksAthletics: Tuks athletes excited to be racing again

Posted on November 03, 2020

"On your marks . . . get set . . . go." These are the words most athletes have been "dying" to hear since level one of the national lockdown has been announced.

#TuksAthletics signs exciting new prospects for 2021

Posted on October 13, 2020

Tuks's beefed up their sprinting talent with the signing of the 18-year-old Eckhardt Potgieter.

#TuksAthletics: Bosman can’t wait to race Cape Town Marathon at Tuks

Posted on October 01, 2020

The former Comrades champion Charne Bosman (Murray&Roberts) can be forgiven if she has started her own personal countdown to 18 October.

#TuksAthletics: Simbine caps dream season running 9.96s

Posted on September 18, 2020

Akani Simbine (Adidas-Tuks) assured another career first last night in Rome when he won the 100 metres during a Diamond League Meeting.

#TuksAthletics: There is a lot at stake for Simbine in Rome

Posted on September 16, 2020

Tomorrow night when Akani Simbine lines up to race the 100 metres in Rome; it could be history in the making for the Adidas-Tuks athlete.

#TuksAthletics: 70 metres is what keeps Sunette Viljoen going

Posted on September 15, 2020

Getting the javelin to fly 70 metres through the air and to "jol" are the goals Sunette Viljoen set herself over the next 52 weeks.

#TuksAthletics: Simbine races to his 3rd victory of the season in Italy

Posted on September 09, 2020

Akani Simbine retained his unbeaten streak in the 100 meters for the season when last night he won the short sprint during the 56th Palio Città Della Quercia Meeting in Italy.

#TuksAthletics: Semenya possibly has the longest winning streak over 800m

Posted on September 09, 2020

The Tuks female athlete of the century, Caster Semenya, may have lost her appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal but her legacy as an 800-meter athlete will remain for a long time to come.

#TuksAthletics: Simbine still unbeaten after winning in Marseille

Posted on September 04, 2020

Akani Simbine (Adidas-Tuks) made it two out two last night when he won the 100 metres during the World Athletics meeting in Marseille.

#TuksAthletics: Bestmed-athlete runs 239km to create awareness for autism

Posted on August 24, 2020

Blistered and bruised but happy is what Niel Thiart (Bestmed Athletics Club) was this morning when after 48 hours he got to stop running around the TuksAthletics track.

#TuksAthletics: Simbine to race next month in Marseille

Posted on August 21, 2020

The Adidas-Tuks sprinter, Akani Simbine, will be settling in his starting blocks to race next month in Marseille, France.

#TuksAthletics: Bestmed-athlete plans to run 334km in 48 hours on Tuks track

Posted on August 17, 2020

Few would ever take note of 334 as a number. It seems insignificant but if Niel Thiart (Bestmed Athletics Club) has his way it might change from Friday when he aims to run nonstop for 48 hours around the Tuks athletics track.

#TuksAthletics: Lockdown was a blessing in disguise for Van Rensburg

Posted on July 31, 2020

Tuks's 800m-athlete, Rynhardt van Rensburg, will have specific numbers in mind from next year when he challenges the stopwatch.