Posted on July 05, 2021
On Friday, 2 July 2021 announced the return of Samuel Troughton to the AmaTuks as a Technical Director. The recommendation and decision to appoint Sammy, as he is affectionately called, comes after a review of the 2020/2021 season. Sammy has coached for a number of teams both in the Glad...
Posted on July 04, 2021
Which South African female athlete has won three national titles in 2021 and nearly set a national record is a question few sport fans might know the answer to. The honour befalls the 19-year-old, Marione Fourie. Don't try and do an internet search to try and find out more about her heroics....
Posted on July 01, 2021
Rikenette Steenkamp proved that you cannot keep a good woman down when she won the women’s 100m-hurdles in a time of 13.23s during the recent AGN League 5 Championship at the Bestmed TuksAthletics Stadium.
Posted on June 22, 2021
Challenging the stopwatch has become the norm to Wayne Snyman. It is what you do if you are an Olympian wanting to beat the world's best. However, the Tuks race walker realises that being fast during training and doing so while racing is not the same thing. That is why he competed at the 2021...
Posted on June 22, 2021
Tlotliso Gift Leotlela notched up his first international win of the season when he won the 100m with a time of 10.15 seconds at the Meeting Madrid held at the Estadio de Vallehermoso in Madrid, Spain on 19 June 2021. The Tuks athlete describes it as the confidence booster he needed. "It...
Posted on June 20, 2021
Koos van der Merwe, one of the legends of South African athletics, sadly passed away at the beginning of this month. He was 65. He will be remembered as someone who lived life to its fullest until he was diagnosed with dementia.
Posted on June 18, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s swimming team as well as the elite athletes who train at its spotless facility are fortunate to have Abel Mokoena who enables their dreams and carries them in his heart.
Posted on June 15, 2021
Nqobile ‘Bili’ Ntuli and Siphesihle ‘Sigz’ Ntuli will keep up a proud Tuks tradition when they arrive in Tokyo to compete at the 2020 Olympic Games. They are the fourth set of brothers to go to the Olympics since 1996, but things are slightly different this time...
Posted on June 11, 2021
Akani Simbine notched up his fourth 100-metre victory in the Diamond League by running 10.08s in Florence on Thursday, 10 June 2021. The Tuks based sprinter did not have the best of starts, but once he got into his rhythm and reach his top-end speed, there was no stopping him. He outsprinted...
Posted on June 07, 2021
Tuks may be the 2021 FNB Varsity Cup Champions, but there is no time for the players to rest on their laurels. Beating UCT 34-27 in the final.
Posted on June 07, 2021
On Sunday, 6 June, the South African 400m-hurdles champion, Wenda Nel, impressed in Hengelo when she ran 55.25s, finishing third at the FBK Games. The Tuks athlete's time is again faster than the Olympic qualifying standard. Femke Bol (Netherlands) won in 54.33s, with Anna Ryzhykova (Ukraine)...
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 June 05, 2021
Winning is important; no one coaches a team to lose but for Kimathi Toboti, sport is also a way to change lives. He is the new head coach of the women’s team at TuksBasketball. Toboti is proving to be the coach that can make a difference. He coached the South African women's basketball...
Posted on May 31, 2021
After the absence of any spectator-based sporting events in 2020 during the nationwide lockdown brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, supporters of the annual FNB Varsity Cup were pleased to welcome the return of this popular university sporting event, albeit via televised broadcasts. This...
Posted on May 31, 2021
This is the attitude Tuks will take to the field when playing Ikeys on Monday, 31 May in the 2021 FNB Varsity Cup final.
Posted on May 28, 2021
There is a reason why 2017 will always remain a highlight for the Tuks flanker, Eduan Lubbe. It is the year - Tuks won the Varsity Cup tournament for the third time. What made it more special was that they got to beat Maties 28-21 in the final. Tuks has, in fact, twice got the better of...
Posted on May 27, 2021
Years ago, a little girl dreamed of playing hockey at the Olympic Games. Today, 20-year-old, Edith Molikoe, heard that she is going to Tokyo. "I don't have words to describe how I feel at the moment. I am excited but at the same time nervous. It is a dream comes true after hours of hard work....
Posted on May 27, 2021
The South African 100m champion, Akani Simbine of TuksAthletics, will start his build-up to the Tokyo Olympic Games on 10 June 2021 when he competes in the Wanda Rome/Florence Diamond League in Italy.
Posted on May 27, 2021
#TuksRugby: Cebolenkosi Dlamini who plays as a loosehead prop impresses in the 2021 FNB Varsity Cup tournament A 19-year-old playing loosehead prop for only two years is expected to have a tough time in the Varsity Cup scrums but Cebolenkosi Dlamini of Tuks, proved to be no pushover. So...
Posted on May 21, 2021
TuksRugby head coach, Nico Luus, can be forgiven if thinking, "I love it when a plan comes together" after their seventy-five-nil victory against Madibaz in the FNB Varsity Cup on Sunday, 21 May 2021. "For the first time, the players stuck to the game plan from start to finish. It is not the...
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