Posted on May 10, 2018
The battle to be in the boats that will try and qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will start in earnest when South Africa’s top rowers get to compete at the Belgrade World Cup in three week’s time.
Posted on May 07, 2018
A lifetime of dreaming coming true is how Carina Horn describes her 10.98s race at the Doha Diamond League Meeting on Friday.
Posted on May 06, 2018
Carina Horn took being the trailblazer of South African women’s sprinting to a whole new level yesterday during the Doha Diamond League Meeting when she clocked 10.98s to become the first to dip under 11 seconds.
Posted on May 03, 2018
Patience, persistence and resilience will be Cornel Fredericks’s motto in the build-up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Posted on May 03, 2018
Carina Horn might dip under 11 seconds tomorrow during the 100m at the Diamond League Meeting in Doha.
Posted on April 30, 2018
Judging by what has been happening in the last two months in swimming it would seem that Tuks has become the training ground for current and future women’s breaststroke champions.
Posted on April 30, 2018
Rikenette Steenkamp (Tuks) is going to set a new South African record in the 100m-hurdles the question is just when she is going to do so.
Posted on April 25, 2018
One of the special moments so far during the University of Pretoria’s graduation ceremonies was when Michaela Whitebooi stepped on to the stage as an acknowledgement for having completed her BCom Financial Science degree.
Posted on April 23, 2018
LJ van Zyl, has decided to put his spikes away for good, bringing to an end an athletics career that spanned nearly 17 years and included winning three Commonwealth Games medals and two World Championships medals.
Posted on April 16, 2018
Whitebooi secured the bronze by beating Chaimae Eddinari in her third fight in the women's -48kg category.
Posted on April 16, 2018
Unelle Snyman (Tuks) won a bronze medal in the women’s under-78kg category as well as in the Open category at the African Judo Championships in Tunisia.
Posted on April 16, 2018
South Africa’s rowers proved they are again going to be a force in international rowing when they won four gold medals over the three days of the Regata Internazionale Memorial Paolo d'Aloja in Italy.
Posted on April 14, 2018
For the second consecutive Commonwealth Games, the South African 4x100m-relay team set a new national record. However, the big difference this time around is that they also got to win the silver medal.
Posted on April 13, 2018
Team South Africa’s quartet (an all-Tuks Team) safely put themselves in contention for yet another medal when they won their heat at the Carrara Stadium.
Posted on April 12, 2018
There will be a lot at stake from tomorrow when South Africa’s top rowers are competing at the Regata Internazionale Memorial Paolo d'Aloja in Italy.
Posted on April 12, 2018
Nel clocked a time of 54.96s in the 400mH to claim the Bronze Medal.
Posted on April 11, 2018
At least one Tuks judoka can win a medal at the African Judo Championships in Tunisia. The only unanswered question is what the colour it is going to be.
Posted on April 11, 2018
The 4x100m-relay gold medal is one that South Africa is judging by the last two years sprint results should have a realistic chance to contest for, but somehow they never really got to give it a full go at a major competition.
Posted on April 10, 2018
Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruintjies lived 'cometh the hour, cometh the men' on Monday afternoon, during the 100 metres final of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, when they raced to win the gold and silver medals respectively.
Posted on April 10, 2018
The South African 400m-hurdles champion, Wenda Nel, had no problem in qualifying this morning for the final at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
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