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Mokgadi Caster Semenya OIB (born 7 January 1991) is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals [4] and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 World Championships , where she also won a bronze ...
Caster Semenya has laid bare the pain she has suffered having had her womanhood questioned during a glittering athletic career dogged by controversy and debate.. The South African middle-distance ...
Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and ...
Caster Semenya, an intersex woman who won gold in the women's 800 m in both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, filed to appeal the decision, which would effectively ban her from competing in middle-distance races due to hyperandrogenism. She subsequently attempted to compete in the women's 5k, but failed to qualify by the June deadline.
On September 8, 2020, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court issued a ruling denying Caster Semenya's appeal. [34] In November 2020 Semenya announced that she will file an appeal against the IAAF testosterone rule at the European Court of Human Rights. [35] In July 2019, Semenya said that the ongoing issue has "destroyed" her "mentally and physically ...
PRETORIA (Reuters) -Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya's major aim is no longer to win medals but to continue her legal battle against World Athletics to overturn requirements that female ...
The two fastest runners of the season, Caster Semenya and Maggie Vessey, had recently set personal bests but lacked any major championships experience, while third best Anna Alminova was a 1500 metres specialist. European Indoor Champion Mariya Savinova and Svetlana Klyuka, fourth at the Olympics, were other strong competitors.
South Africa’s two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya told CNN that having to take testosterone-reducing medication in order to compete internationally was “hell” and had a negative impact ...