Posted on April 13, 2016
Depending on the weather on Friday, 15 April 2016, the winning time in the women’s 100 metres final at the South African Athletics Championships in Stellenbosch could well be the fastest time run in the event for the past ten years.
Posted on April 11, 2016
It is generally expected that Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruintjies will battle it out for the honour of being crowned the fastest man in the country at the South African Athletics Championships, which will take place in Stellenbosch on 16 April 2016.
Posted on April 11, 2016
FNB Tuks outmuscled FNB UJ 47–24 at UJ Stadium to win the Young Guns Final on Tuesday 12 April.
Posted on April 10, 2016
It rained goals at the Harry Gwala Stadium when AmaTuks scored 4 goals in the opening 15 minutes of the second half and ran out 4-2 winners against Maritzburg United on Saturday night.
Posted on April 09, 2016
The FNB Madibaz Young Guns were unable to play their last match of the Young Guns season due to a large number of injuries and had to forfeit their match against the FNB Tuks Young Guns which was due to be played on 28 March.
Posted on April 09, 2016
Zack Piontek (Tuks/hpc) may have achieved his goal of representing South Africa at the Olympic Games in Rio by winning a silver medal for judo at the African Championships in Tunis, Tunisia.
Posted on April 06, 2016
Assupol TuksCricket women's player, Suné Luus has been named as part of the tournament team after the ICC World T20.
Posted on April 01, 2016
During the past week, the University of Pretoria men's soccer team successfully defended their national title at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein to become the 2015 USSA National Football Club Champions.
Posted on March 26, 2016
The University of Pretoria men's varsity team are the 2015 USSA Football National Club Champions after successfully defending their national title at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein this past week.
Posted on March 23, 2016
Assupol TuksCricket has won the NCU Premier League for the sixth year in a row after ending at the top of the log at the end of the 2015/2016 season.
Posted on March 22, 2016
When TuksSport High School athletes Clarence Munyai and Gift Leatlelo set off to challenge the stopwatch in the 100m and 200m sprints, they usually go fast, faster and fastest.
Posted on March 22, 2016
TuksAthletics hurdler, LJ van Zyl (Tuks/hpc) maintained his unbeaten streak when he won the 400-hurdles in 49.74s on the 22 March 2016 at the ASA Night Series-event in Cape Town.
Posted on March 21, 2016
Henri Schoeman proved to be a real class act when he won the African Triathlon title in East London for the second successive year on the 20th March 2016. Schoeman led from start to finish, winning the 1.5km swim, 40km cycle and 10km run in 2 hours and 48 seconds.
Posted on March 17, 2016
Health experts recently submitted an open letter to the UK government, calling for tackling in schools rugby to be outlawed. UP's Prof Steve Cornelius has entered this controversial debate with a recently published article.
Posted on March 17, 2016
A star-studded Tuks team will confidently make their way to Johannesburg for the first leg of the Varsity Athletics meeting on Friday 18 March. Led by the new 100m national record holder, Akani Simbine, it’s possible that the Tuks team is out to set more records tumbling in both field and...
Posted on March 17, 2016
AmaTuks suffered their first ever home defeat to Ajax after going down 1-0 to the Urban Warriors at the Tuks Stadium on Wednesday night.
Posted on March 15, 2016
Llewellyn van Leeuwen, the head coach at the TuksSport Golf Academy, has scored another first for the University of Pretoria’s successful golf academy when he was voted the PGA of South Africa’s 2015 Teaching Professional of the Year.
Posted on March 14, 2016
For the seventh year running, Assupol TuksCricket won the NCU Super 8 Knock Out competition when they beat PHSOB by 24 runs in the final at SuperSport Park on Sunday 13 March. Tuks reached the final after they beat Sinoville in the group stages and Police in the semi-final.
Posted on March 13, 2016
LJ Van Zyl (Tuks/HPC) won the 400-hurdles at the Gauteng-North Championships in 50.09 seconds. He was the first to admit that his time was nothing to get excited about but he was satisfied for now. There is still a long season ahead and it is important for him to peak when it really matters.
Posted on March 13, 2016
After winning the 100 metres at the Gauteng North Championships in 10.01 seconds yesterday, Akani Simbine (Tuks/HPC) said jokingly that local athletics fans are being spoiled. He was referring to the fact that his performance was totally overshadowed by Wayde Van Niekerk’s awesome 9.98s...
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