Posted on July 24, 2021
#TuksJudo: Michaela Whitebooi is the sixth South African judoka to be coached by Nikola Filipov to qualify for the Olympic Games since 2008 Nikola Filipov is a hardcore no-nonsense judo coach; as far as he is concerned, an athlete is doing something right, or they are doing it wrong, there is...
Posted on July 10, 2021
17 years. That is how long it has been since a South African female judoka competed at the Olympic Games but it is about to change when Michaela Whitebooi (now a TuksSport High School matriculant & TuksJudo Academy matriculant), steps onto the mats in Tokyo on 24 July. She is only the...
Posted on June 06, 2021
To win two fights will be Michaela Whitebooi's challenge from Sunday, 6 June when she competes at the 2021 World Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary. If she does, it is a near done deal that the Tuks judoka will compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Nikola Filipov (TuksJudo head coach)...
Posted on January 22, 2021
Perfect judo is not going to cut it. It is the conclusion Michaela Whitebooi came to in her quest to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games. The Tuks judoka seemingly could do no wrong towards the end of last year. She won three tournaments in Africa on the trot. What excited her was winning gold...
Posted on November 16, 2020
Winning can be addictive. Anyway, so it seems as over the weekend during the Dakar Open Judo Tournament Michaela Whitebooi won gold.
Posted on November 04, 2020
Michaela Whitebooi's quest to become an Olympian starts in earnest over the weekend when she steps onto the mats to compete in the Yaounde African Open Judo Tournament in Cameroon.
Posted on April 22, 2020
The Tuks judoka Unelle Snyman had been busy over the past few weeks. Apart from training, she tried to save the life of a young nyala while at times she also had to avoid being clawed by young lions.
Posted on January 15, 2020
University of Pretoria (UP) law student Khanya Thamae describes himself as introverted, but the moment he steps onto a judo mat, everything changes.
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