A 20-year-old defending a title against an international swimming legend can seemingly be intimidating, but Stephanie Houtman sees it as an exciting learning experience. Last year the Tuks swimmer surprised many when she won the aQuellé Midmar Mile women’s race (1.6km). She actually did not plan on competing. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision. Sunday, she…
By winning gold and bronze medals last night in the 200m-breaststroke at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, Tatjana Schoenmaker and Kaylene Corbett achieved a first for South African swimming. They are the first two female swimmers to medal in the same event at the Commonwealth Games since 1994. Schoenmaker won the 200m-breaststroke in 2:21.92, with Corbett…
Tuks’s swimmers certainly made their presence felt during the South African Open Water Championships in Jeffreys Bay, winning the men’s and women’s 10 and 5km events. Through his heroics, the 19-year-old Ruan Breytenbach proved that when the going gets tough, the tough get going by winning the men’s 10km and 5km events. It should be…
