Posted on July 06, 2017
The University of Pretoria will have the chance to chase an 11th victory in the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Golf Championship, but only one team can challenge for the title in the final round at Centurion Country Club on Friday.
Posted on July 06, 2017
To win three titles at a badminton tournament is exceptional but then to go on and repeat the same feat a year later is amazing.
Posted on July 05, 2017
Gregg Gilson, Adriaan Hamman and Brandon Lane catapulted the University of Pretoria B-team to victory in the 36-hole stroke play seeding qualifier at the University Sport South Africa (USSA) Golf Championship on Tuesday.
Posted on July 05, 2017
Simbine last night finished second in the 100m as well as in the 200m at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial Meeting in Budapest.
Posted on July 03, 2017
The Tuks/HPC-athlete won in a time of 12.92s which is 0.02s faster than the record set by Corien Botha in 1998. Unfortunately, the wind from behind was measured at 2.01m/s which means it was too strong by 0.01m/s for Steenkamp’s time to be official.
Posted on July 03, 2017
The TuksHockey Women’s team completed a unique double over the weekend when they managed to beat the University of Johannesburg in the final of the South African Universities (USSA) Tournament. The team is also the Varsity Champions.
Posted on June 30, 2017
Henricho Bruintjies, Emile Erasmus and Wenda Nel were the three South Africans doing duty on 28 June at the Athletics Meeting in Nancy, France.
Posted on June 29, 2017
South Africa’s Olympian rowers will start their international campaign with a totally clean slate over the weekend when they compete in the Henley Regatta in England.
Posted on June 29, 2017
Last night in Ostrava Rikenette Steenkamp has done what she has been threatening to do the whole season and that was to dip under 13 seconds in the 100m-hurdles. She is only the second South African athlete to do so.
Posted on June 29, 2017
South Africa’s, Wayde van Niekerk and Clarence Munyai, probably made athletics history last night at the Golden Spike Meeting in Ostrava by becoming the first athletes of the same country to set new world bests in different categories but in the same race.
Posted on June 26, 2017
The Momentum Proteas got their 2017 ICC Women’s World Cup campaign off to a winning start when they beat Pakistan by three wickets at Grace Road in Leicester on Sunday.
Posted on June 26, 2017
The South African women’s cricket team's three-wicket victory over Pakistan in the ICC Women’s World Cup was perhaps not their best, but then again a win is winning.
Posted on June 26, 2017
Thando Roto proved he is on track to run a second sub ten second time in the 100 metres in the next few weeks when he won the 100 metres in 10.11s on Saturday at the Bilboa-meeting in Spain.
Posted on June 23, 2017
The good news for South African athletics fans is that the world's best long jumper, Luvo Manyonga, has only sustained a slight ankle injury and is already busy with rehabilitation.
Posted on June 22, 2017
Many success stories in sports originate in backyard gardens where young children try to emulate the success of their heroes. Sometimes these unofficial "tests" are the beginnings of great things to come.
Posted on June 21, 2017
SA sprinters to finish off a podium sweep for South Africa in Slovenia on 20 June.
Posted on June 21, 2017
Rikenette Steenkamp came painstakingly closer to breaching 13 seconds in Velenje, winning her race in a time of 13.03.
Posted on June 20, 2017
Prof Martin Schwellnus, Director of the Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute at the University of Pretoria is the recipient of the 2017 American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM) International Clinical Scholar Award.
Posted on June 19, 2017
Luvo Manyonga and Ruswahl Samaai secured a one-two for the South African contingent on Sunday, dominating the Men's Long Jump discipline at the sixth leg of the IAAF Diamond League Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted on June 16, 2017
Rikenette Steenkamp victorious in France
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