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.
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.
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