Posted on March 12, 2024
The Tuks wrestler is no stranger to competing internationally. Last year, she won silver at the African Beach Games in Tunisia. She was also in action in the semifinals of the Singapore World Series Beach Wrestling Tournament. She has yet to compete internationally on the mats in freestyle...
Posted on February 23, 2024
Kian du Toit might only be 18, but the biggest mistake older wrestlers could make at next month's African Senior Wrestling Championships in Egypt is to underestimate him. When the youngster steps onto the mats, only one thing matters. That is to get his opponent pinned down for the count. Age...
Posted on June 19, 2023
Bea Meiring proved over the weekend in Singapore during a World Series Beach Wrestling event that with the right mindset, anything can happen. The Tuks wrestler so nearly medalled. It would indeed have been a turn-up for the books if she did. Meiring only took up wrestling towards the end of...
Posted on June 09, 2023
When Bea Meiring took up wrestling at the end of last year, the idea was to have fun, but things played out differently. This weekend, she will compete at the Singapore Beach Wrestling World Series. The Tuks wrestler has also been named as part of Team South Africa for the 2023 African Beach...
Posted on February 27, 2023
The Tuks wrestler, Arno van Zijl, is prepared to go to "war" if that is what it will take to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France. The 21-year-old knows he is in for a tough challenge. It is only the second year that he will compete against senior wrestlers. To the 2020 African...
Posted on July 22, 2022
It is said that "the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time", which is precisely what Arno van Zijl of TuksWrestling, plans on doing at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England. But don't get him wrong. The Tuks wrestler is not planning to go on an eating marathon. It is...
Posted on February 18, 2022
TuksWrestling: Tuks wrestler not one to shy away from a challenge Like a moth can't resist circling a burning candle, so can the 19-year-old and Tuks wrestler, Arno van Zijl, cannot resist a real challenge. His aim is to compete at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and World Junior...
Posted on September 30, 2020
Wrestling is what gets Rozani Honiball's adrenaline pumping.
Posted on September 01, 2020
TuksWrestling proved with the appointment of Tanki Tau as its first black coach that it is never only about winning medals. The club's aim is to make a difference on and off the mats.
Posted on March 24, 2020
Tuks's wrestlers are starting to make a name for themselves in the USA.
Posted on February 20, 2020
Tuks's Arno van Zijl achieved something few South African wrestlers have been able to do, and that is to win gold two years consecutively at the African Championships.
Posted on October 21, 2019
Chloe Brewis, an 11-year-old University of Pretoria TuksSport wrestler, has been bruised and even had her nose broken, yet she’s still standing. In fact it has only motivated her to work harder at her chosen sport.
Posted on July 15, 2019
Five Tuks wrestlers will be representing South Africa from the end of the month at the Cadet and the Junior World Championships.
Posted on April 15, 2019
The Tuks wrestlers, Mika Lehmkuhl and Arno van Zijl's, courage and dogged perseverance led to both of them winning gold medals at the recent African Championships in Tunisia.
Posted on February 11, 2019
The Tuks wrestlers gave as good as they got over the weekend during the South African Trials in Secunda with eight wrestlers being victorious.
Posted on February 05, 2019
For the past few weeks, Matthew Bartlett (TuksWrestling) has been in a constant battle to get the numbers on his bathroom scale to drop, but his real fight will start over the weekend when he steps onto the mats to compete at the South African wrestling trials in Secunda.
Posted on January 17, 2019
UP-Tuks’s junior African wrestling champion, Edrich Nortje, is going to study and train in the USA later this year with the aim of just maybe qualifying for next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Posted on March 12, 2018
Edrich Nortje (Tuks) is starting to become a regular fixture on wrestling podiums all over Africa. The past weekend he won two gold medals (freestyle and Greco-Roman) at the Gauteng North Presidents Tournament.
Posted on November 16, 2017
Leanco Stans's quest to qualify for next year's Commonwealth Games in Australia starts in earnest next month when she competes at the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships at Carnival City.
Posted on May 02, 2017
South Africa’s wrestlers gave a good account of themselves over the weekend at the African Junior Championships in Marrakech, Morocco winning no less than 18 medals (5 gold, 9 silver and 4 bronze).
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