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4x400 m mixed. 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 ...
Violet Ledile Raseboya (born 19 February 1986) [1] is a retired South African middle-distance runner. She competed at the Athletics at the 2007 All-Africa Games – Women's 1500 metres [2] as well as 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race, 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race and 2007 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior ...
Maria José Martínez-Patiño. Maria José Martínez-Patiño (born 10 July 1961) is a Spanish former hurdler, whose dismissal from the Spanish Olympic team in 1986 for failing the gender test is a notable moment in the history of sex verification in sports. [1][2][3] Martínez-Patiño was dismissed after a competition that would have set her up ...
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The testosterone regulations in women's athletics are a series of policies first published in 2011 by the IAAF (now World Athletics) and last updated following a court victory against Caster Semenya in May 2019. The first version of the rules applied to all women with high testosterone, but the current version of the rules only apply to ...
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 ...
As an 18-year-old, Caster Semenya was ready to go there, willing to be humiliated in front of adults if that’s The post Caster Semenya should be free to be who she is appeared first on TheGrio.
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.