Posted on August 02, 2017
Clarence Munyai might only be the second youngest athlete to compete in the 200m at the IAAF World Championships in London, but that does not mean he is in awe of his older more experienced rivals.
Posted on August 01, 2017
James du Preez walked off the 18th green at Waterkloof Golf Club on Monday wearing a wide, toothy smile and who could blame him? The lanky Pretoria amateur had just drained a five-foot putt for his second eagle in four holes, and the first round lead in the IGT Challenge Tour’s Waterkloof...
Posted on August 01, 2017
Team South Africa departed last night for the biennial IAAF World Championships starting in London on Friday, 4 August until 13 August.
Posted on August 01, 2017
Team South Africa has set themselves a target of 10 medals for the upcoming 29th Summer Universiade in Chinese Taipei from 19 – 30 August 2017
Posted on July 24, 2017
South Africa’s rowers proved that could hold their own against the world’s best by winning two medals at the World Under-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Posted on July 18, 2017
Nicole van Wyk will try and settle an old score from Wednesday on (19 July) when she competes at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Posted on July 17, 2017
Two world champions and two world record holders! There are not many high schools in the world that can boast with such an achievement. TuksSport High School can.
Posted on July 12, 2017
The South African 100m-hurdles-champion, Rikenette Steenkamp, raced to her fourth victory in Europe last night when she won in Gothenburg.
Posted on July 11, 2017
Having set a world youth record in the 400m-hurdles earlier this season means that Sokwakhana Zazini is the one everyone will want to beat at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Nairobi (12-16 July).
Posted on July 11, 2017
DJ le Grange won the South African judo-title
Posted on July 10, 2017
Kirsten McCann completed her collection of rowing World Cup medals over the weekend when she won a gold medal in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Posted on July 10, 2017
George Kusche had a victorious start to his international campaign yesterday when he won the 800m at the Brussels Grand Prix-meeting in a time of 1:47.98.
Posted on July 10, 2017
David Nortje, Ian Jacobs, Jacques Britz and Calvin Ferreira from the University of Pretoria smoked Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University to seal their 11th victory in the University Sports South Africa (USSA) Golf Championship in spectacular style at Centurion Country Club on Friday.
Posted on July 07, 2017
Akani Simbine sprinted to a third place in the 100 meters at last night’s Diamond League Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Posted on July 07, 2017
Some great racing took place in the heats on day one of World Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland where both SA boats qualified for Semi-finals
Posted on July 05, 2017
Simbine last night finished second in the 100m as well as in the 200m at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial Meeting in Budapest.
Posted on July 03, 2017
The Tuks/HPC-athlete won in a time of 12.92s which is 0.02s faster than the record set by Corien Botha in 1998. Unfortunately, the wind from behind was measured at 2.01m/s which means it was too strong by 0.01m/s for Steenkamp’s time to be official.
Posted on June 30, 2017
Henricho Bruintjies, Emile Erasmus and Wenda Nel were the three South Africans doing duty on 28 June at the Athletics Meeting in Nancy, France.
Posted on June 29, 2017
South Africa’s Olympian rowers will start their international campaign with a totally clean slate over the weekend when they compete in the Henley Regatta in England.
Posted on June 29, 2017
Last night in Ostrava Rikenette Steenkamp has done what she has been threatening to do the whole season and that was to dip under 13 seconds in the 100m-hurdles. She is only the second South African athlete to do so.
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