Posted on September 11, 2019
Charne Griesel proved she is on track to perform well during next month's Junior World Judo Championships when she won a gold medal over the weekend in Tunisia.
Posted on August 20, 2019
Tuks's Michaela Whitebooi and Unelle Snyman earned the right to be called Africa's best through their recent exploits on the judo mats now they are about to challenge the best in Tokyo.
Posted on August 19, 2019
Michaela Whitebooi won a silver medal and became Team SA’s first medallist at the 2019 African Games on 17 August.
Posted on July 11, 2019
TuksJudo's head coach, Nikola Filipov, is undoubtedly doing something right seeing as to what happened during the National Federation's Awards-function (JSA) and the South African Open Championships.
Posted on April 26, 2019
The Tuks judoka, Michaela Whitebooi's, Olympic dream is starting to become a reality after she won a gold medal during the African Championships in Cape Town yesterday.
Posted on April 09, 2019
Thomas-Laszlo Breytenbach (TuksSport High School) impressed on Sunday when he won a silver medal at the European Cadet Judo Tournament in Teplice, Czech Republic.
Posted on February 07, 2019
Michaela Whitebooi and Charné Griesel decided to see if in some small way they can’t help to get kids active.
Posted on January 31, 2019
Leanco Stans (Tuks) could achieve something in South Africa’s fight sports that no one else might have done, and that is to win medals in the same year at the national championships in judo and wrestling.
Posted on January 09, 2019
A new year with new challenges but the results seem to remain the same. The UP-Tuks judokas are still winning more fights than they are losing during the important local tournaments.
Posted on October 12, 2018
Hectic is a word the UP-Tuks judoka, DJ le Grange, can justifiably use to describe how his life is playing out at the moment.
Posted on October 09, 2018
If there is one thing, Donné Breytenbach (TuksSport High School) truly hates it is to lose a judo fight. For her, it is just not on.
Posted on September 23, 2018
Another year, different challenges but the UP-Tuks judokas made sure the result that matters remained the same over the weekend by winning the USSA Tournament for the fourth consecutive year in Cape Town.
Posted on September 20, 2018
When Unelle Snyman steps onto the mat on Saturday during the Judo World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan she knows she is in for a tough challenge, but the Tuks judoka is confident of giving as good as she gets.
Posted on September 02, 2018
Michaela Whitebooi is not training to lose, but for now, she will make peace that during the African Judo Championships in Tunisia her performance was only good enough for bronze.
Posted on August 07, 2018
The qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo is starting in earnest for the Tuks judokas from Friday when they compete in the Budapest Grand Prix Tournament.
Posted on July 10, 2018
Tuks’s judokas were in impressive form during the South African Open Tournament in Port Elizabeth winning no less than 30 medals (14 gold, 7 silver and 9 bronze).
Posted on May 17, 2018
The Tuks Judokas had a good showing the past weekend at the African Junior and Cadet Championships in Burundi winning a total of 14 medals.
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 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.
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