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.
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.
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.
Posted on September 07, 2020
Dr. Rendani Mulaudzi joined TuksSport in 2000 as a Sports Manager. In 2007, he was appointed as a Deputy Director. With his widespread experience in the sport industry, in 2005, he starting serving as an Acting General Manager of AmaTuks. Today, he is a TuksSport Deputy Director of Sport...
Posted on September 04, 2020
Future Olympians can take comfort knowing that staff at the University of Pretoria's Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI) are not only accomplished in their fields of expertise but also have personal experience in performance sport.
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.
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.
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.
Posted on August 05, 2020
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts – that’s what little girls are made of. The heck with sugar and spice,” said US professional surfer and shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton.
Posted on May 07, 2020
The ability to think outside the box is going to be crucial for every administrator who hopes to help revive the sporting industry in South Africa after the coronavirus pandemic, says TuksSport Acting Director Toby Sutcliffe.
Posted on April 24, 2020
Former head coach of the South African U-20 Women’s National Team (Basetsana), Sheryl Botes, and currently the Head Coach of the SAFA Girls Soccer Academy based at the High Performance Centre (HPC), in Pretoria has been appointed a CAF Instructor.
Posted on April 07, 2020
One of the dire consequences of the coronavirus pandemic is that hardly a day has gone by that a major international sports event has not been cancelled or postponed.
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 February 28, 2020
One boat, two spots but four contenders is the challenge South Africa's foremost men's rowers face who are hoping to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Posted on February 26, 2020
Tuks's women's squash team bagged their first title for the season when they won the Northerns Blitz League.
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 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.
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