#TuksKarate: Meghan Smit in a challenging quest to qualify for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Posted on May 19, 2021

To have a dream of competing at the Olympics takes more than hours and hours of training and significant sacrifices; there is a definite financial aspect to it. Often it is not a lack of talent that ends an athlete's hope. It is money or, to be more precise, a lack of funds. Five South...

#TuksRowing: South African rowers qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games

Posted on May 17, 2021

The South African men's four crew qualified for the Tokyo Olympics when they won gold with a time of 6:06.11 at the World Rowing Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland on 18 May 2021. With this victory, they ensured that South Africa will have two crews competing at the...

#TuksRugby: Louritz van der Schyff wants to keep going when he has the ball in his hands

Posted on May 16, 2021

It is easy to think a try is a try, but there are times it is that little bit more special to dive over watching the numbers on the scoreboard change. For Louritz van der Schyff, Sunday, 4 April 2021 was such a special occasion. When he scored Tuks's first try against Wits during the FNB...

#TuksYatching: Sailing is a sport for those with a sense of adventure

Posted on May 16, 2021

taking up sailing. There will be no regrets. It is a promise made by the Commodore of TuksYachting, Damian Muller. He would know. His grandfather got him on a little boat in the middle of a dam when he was 14 years old and told him to find his way to the shore. He did. Since then, he has made...

#TuksAthletics: Kyle Blignaut qualifies for the Tokyo Olympic Games in the men’s shot-put

Posted on May 16, 2021

Kyle Blignaut of Tuks, has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games with a winning throw of 21.21 metres in the men’s shot-put during the 2021 USSA Athletics Championships in Johannesburg. The "Big Man" is in terrific form. Since the 2021 South African Senior National Championships at Tuks,...

#TuksAthletics: Shot putter, Kyle Blignaut, qualifies for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Posted on May 15, 2021

On 15 May 2021, Kyle Blignaut of Tuks, qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games with a winning throw of 21.21 metres in the shot put during the USSA Athletics Championships in Johannesburg.

#TuksAthletics: Kyle Blignaut and Jason van Rooyen on a mission to revive shotput in South Africa

Posted on May 13, 2021

The men's shot put has become one of the forgotten events in South African athletics, but Jason van Rooyen and Kyle Blignaut's rivalry could change this. In the past two weeks, both athletes have thrown further than 21 metres. Van Rooyen won on 29 April in Potchefstroom with a distance of...

#TuksAthletics: South Africa can become a force in international relays says Danie Cornelius

Posted on May 09, 2021

The gold medal the South African men's 4x100m relay team won at the World Relay Championships in Poland is the start of things to come. More SA teams will medal in the future. Athletics South Africa (ASA) relay team manager, Danie Cornelius, who is the Head of Programme at TuksAthletics is the...