Posted on February 18, 2024
A medal and African and South African records prove that UP-Tuks swimmers performed well at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Coetzé won bronze in the 200-meter backstroke. The way he swam those last 50 metres is what champions are made from. To come back from eighth to...
Posted on February 16, 2024
Tory Earle's love to challenge herself to the limits led to the Midmar Mile victory. For years to come, statistics will show that Tory Earle won the women's Midmar Mile in 2024. But numbers never tell the whole story. Most will not know Earle competed at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha,...
Posted on February 14, 2024
South Africa's national rowing coach, Tiago Loureiro, aims to get four crews to compete at the Paris Olympic Games. As things stand, it is two done and two to go. John Smith and Chris Baxter ensured that a South African crew would compete in the men's pair race at the Games by finishing sixth at...
Posted on February 12, 2024
The UP-Tuks student-athlete, Karabo Mailula will not defend her Bestmed TuksRace 10km title on Saturday as she is off competing at the 2024 FISU World University Championships Cross Country in Oman. The World University Championship Cross Country is one of the oldest FISU Championships. It was...
Posted on February 09, 2024
Amica de Jager may have done enough in the women's 10km open-water swim race at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics in France. She finished 27th, one minute and 12 seconds behind the race winner, Sharon van Rouwendal (Netherlands). De Jager was...
Posted on February 07, 2024
The word "spike" will undoubtedly impact Danilo von Ludwiger's life in 2024 when he is in the hospital or playing beach volleyball. He is a sixth-year MBCHB student at Tuks. It means he spends a lot of his time in a hospital where a patient's temperature can spike at any moment. When it happens,...
Posted on February 05, 2024
The South African 200-meter backstroke champion Hannah Pearse's only goal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha is to be faster than last year. She is studying BSc Human Physiology, Genetics, and Psychology at UP-Tuks. If she succeeds, it proves that all the long, hard hours in the...
Posted on February 02, 2024
#TuksSwimming: Pieter Coetzé can medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha. Predicting who might medal at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha is risky because, as everyone knows, races are won through guts and determination, not speculation. But there are always...
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