Posted on April 14, 2021
If you don't succeed at first . . . try . . . try again - is what Pieter Coetzé was about during the 2021 South African National Aquatic Championships in Newton Park, Gqeberha.
Posted on April 13, 2021
Tatjana Schoenmaker can, for now at least, claim to be the world's fastest female 200m breaststroke swimmer after yet again setting a new African record winning in 2:20.17 at the South African National Aquatic Champs in Port Elizabeth. She also staged a new African and South African record time...
Posted on April 05, 2021
The Tuks athlete, Taylon Bieldt, has steadily been getting faster without anyone really taking note, but things changed when she won the 400m-hurdles in 56.17 seconds at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium.
Posted on April 03, 2021
South African race walker, Wayne Snyman of TuksAthletics, will vouch that a mere second faster can make a big difference; it was what helped him qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Posted on March 30, 2021
It is often said third time lucky, but the 2016 Olympian sprinter, Gift Leotela, hopes that his fourth comeback will be the one he gets to fulfil his true potential.
Posted on March 25, 2021
2021 has been an eventful year for the 2018 African youth 100m-hurdles champion, Kayla van den Bergh, despite her not having raced yet. The Tuks athlete has definite goals. She wants to compete at the upcoming 2021 World Student Games in China as well as the 2020 World Athletics U20...
Posted on March 23, 2021
Blaise Izungu is a Student Head Coach & Assistant Academy Coach at TuksTennis. From 2014 to 2016, he served as an Assessor for the USSA Tennis Executive Committee and member of the USSA National Team Selection Panel. At the beginning of 2020, he was appointed Tournament Director of USSA...
Posted on March 18, 2021
The Tuks long jumper, Jovan van Vuuren, can undoubtedly relate to the lyrics of Bob Dylan's famous song "Blow in in the wind". So far, he has competed twice this season. The first time at Tuks, he jumped 7.97m and recently in Potchefstroom 8.07m. Result wise it should have been the third and...
Posted on March 12, 2021
This year’s FNB Varsity Cup and FNB Varsity Shield tournaments will take place in a secure bio-bubble called the FNB Varsity Cup Village. The University of Pretoria will host the Village, with matches also being played at Loftus Versfeld Stadium just down the road.
Posted on March 11, 2021
Luxolo Adams of TuksAthletics, could well be South Africa's next sprinter to dip under 10 seconds in the 100 metres event. Recently, in Potchefstroom, he won in a time of 10.07. It means unofficially, he is now one of the fastest local sprinters in the short sprint. Only 10 athletes had been...
Posted on March 08, 2021
The University of Pretoria (UP) with its Department of Sport (TuksSport) and Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club today announced a ground-breaking partnership that seeks to vastly enhance the game of football and the development of it through science, technology and scientific research.
Posted on March 06, 2021
The Tuks swimmer, Pieter Coetzé, has set himself the goal of trying to achieve what few South African male swimmers, if any, had been able to do, that is, qualify for the Olympic Games at the age of 16.
Posted on March 03, 2021
Tatjana Schoenmaker showed that qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be a breeze when she set a new African record during Swim South Africa’s Evaluation Camp Gala in Stellenbosch. The Tuks based swimmer won the 100m-breaststroke in a record time of 1:05.89 two weeks ago in...
Posted on February 23, 2021
TuksSport High School Class of 2020’ has achieved a 98.2% matric pass rate. It is the first time the school reaches an 89% bachelor pass rate. In total, the learners achieved 73 distinctions.
Posted on February 22, 2021
South Africa's 4x100m relay athletes are, for certain, one team with one goal. It became abundantly clear during their first training camp on Saturday at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium.
Posted on February 20, 2021
Evans Maripa arguably has one of the best forehands in international wheelchair tennis. The Tuks based player’s biggest regret last year was never getting an opportunity to hit the "sweet spot" seeing an opponent play and miss. 2020 was monotonous. It felt like all he did was go to the...
Posted on February 12, 2021
Six years ago a shy 19-year old from Graaff Reinet, caused quite a stir when he stopped the clock running 45.42s over 400-metres in Potchefstroom. It was believed in 2015 that Berend Koekemoer was a future champion in the making. Things did not quite work out as he had hoped. He quitted...
Posted on February 11, 2021
Eight years ago, the Athletics Foundation Trust's (AFT) decision-makers set about creating a unique youth development programme to make a real difference in South Africa through education and athletics. Hardly a year has passed since 2014 in which one or more of the Trust's sponsored athletes...
Posted on February 06, 2021
April is the "D-day" month for all South African swimmers who hope to qualify to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games or the World Student Games, but things have hit a hitch. It is not sure in which pool they are going to dive in to. The National Championships and Olympic Trials were supposed to...
Posted on February 03, 2021
A year is a long time, people tend to forget about things, and things also can get misplaced or lost. The Tuks triathlete, Dylan Nortje, admits he needs to search for his racing shoes. It is a given that he will find it before the South African Triathlon Championships as he needs to race. Get...
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