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 09, 2020
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announces that its 2020 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List), which was first published on 30 September 2019, entered into force on 1 January.
Posted on December 03, 2019
The Tuks based wheelchair tennis player, Mariska Venter, is not lying when she claims to be now twice as good a player as she was in January.
Posted on November 29, 2019
The TuksSquash head of the programme, Liz Mackenzie, has already been at it for 30 years. She is still as fervent as the first day she started coaching.
Posted on November 20, 2019
The TuksTennis team is hoping it will be third time lucky when they compete next month in the USSA Tournament in Stellenbosch.
Posted on November 17, 2019
The Tuks judoka Unelle Snyman had a significant breakthrough over the weekend when she won a gold medal at the African Open Judo Championship in Dakar.
Posted on November 12, 2019
There’s no secret any more as to what TuksSport High School judo star Thomas Breytenbach’s favourite pastime is: He likes to win medals during international judo tournaments.
Posted on November 12, 2019
Donald Ramphadi, Evans Maripa and Mariska Venter bagged six titles in the last 12 days. They are part of the recently announced Tennis South Africa (TSA) and TuksSport high-performance programme.
Posted on November 11, 2019
University of Pretoria TuksSport swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker won the South African Sports Star of the Year award as well as the South African Sportswoman of the Year award at the SA Sport Awards in Durban recently.
Posted on October 29, 2019
South Africa have won the bid to host the men’s 2020 Middle East and Africa Championship, which will take place in Pretoria next October. The 2019 version was recently held in Lagos, Nigeria and also involved Cameroon, Ghana and Morocco - the hosts taking the title after defeating Morocco...
Posted on October 29, 2019
Donald Ramphadi is considered to be a rising star in international wheelchair quad tennis, but champions need to train, and of late he has been battling to do so.
Posted on October 28, 2019
Tennis South Africa (TSA) and the University of Pretoria (TUKS) have announced an exciting new partnership that sees TuksSport and TuksTennis become the official home for the TSA wheelchair Tennis high performance programme, from November 2019 onwards.
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 23, 2019
South Africa's Chanel Simmonds will be one of the highest-ranked female players participating from next Monday in the ITF World Tour Tennis event at Tuks.
Posted on September 17, 2019
Africa's and South Africa's fastest 400m-hurdler, Sokwakhana Zazini, won't be competing at the IAAF World Championships in Doha due to a foot injury.
Posted on August 21, 2019
South Africa's rower's quest to compete at next year's Tokyo Olympic Games is starting in earnest from Sunday when they are competing at the World Championships in Linz Ottensheim, Austria.
Posted on August 20, 2019
Tuks's Michaela Whitebooi and Unelle Snyman earned the right to be called Africa's best through their recent exploits on the judo mats now they are about to challenge the best in Tokyo.
Posted on August 20, 2019
As a moth can't resist the temptation to play around a burning candle so can Ursula Grobler not resist trying to see the Olympic flame burn one last time.
Posted on August 19, 2019
Michaela Whitebooi won a silver medal and became Team SA’s first medallist at the 2019 African Games on 17 August.
Posted on August 14, 2019
Mili-seconds is what it is going to be all about for Tatjana Schoenmaker as she prepares for next year's Tokyo Olympic Games.
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