Cape Town – South African middle distance athlete Caster Semenya is aiming to run in the 200 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. By doing so, she will be competing over a distance that will allow her to avoid World Athletics’ regulations limiting her testosterone levels. Semenya is a double Olympic gold medallist in the […]
But for the IAAF, women like Semenya, with certain masculine attributes due to DSD, are classified, biologically, as men. It is a position hotly contested by South African officials. In the build-up to the 2009 world championships in Berlin, where Semenya went on to win gold in the 800m, the South African had to undergo […]
A Swiss court ruling that blocks South African Caster Semenya from defending her world 800m title in Doha in September creates much-needed “parity and clarity” in athletics, the sport’s governing body said Wednesday. A judge at the Swiss Federal Tribunal on Monday revoked a temporary suspension on the IAAF’s controversial testosterone-curbing rules, meaning two-time Olympic […]