The World Athletics governing body in 2018 banned Semenya and other female athletes with Differences of Sexual Development from races between 400 metres and a mile unless they take hormone-suppressing drugs.
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The double Olympic 800m champion, 29, lost two previous appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court.
The 29-year-old Semenya, who reportedly is intersex, has said she would not use medication to allow her to continue racing the 800 metres.
The appeal was to set aside a 2019 Court of Arbitration ruling that female athletes with high natural testosterone levels must take medication to reduce it.
South African middle distance athlete Caster Semenya is aiming to run in the 200 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Caster Semenya has lashed out at the IAAF and Sebastian Coe, as she remains barred from competing in middle-distance events.
Lord Sebastian Coe, president of the International Association of Athletics Federation, has insisted that the association’s female eligibility regulations, which finally came into effect in May, 2019 after several months of delay, are not targeted at a particular athlete, even though Caster Semenya is the first name that comes to mind whenever the highly-controversial and heated issue is being discussed.
Caster Semenya appears to be preparing for a career outside of athletics after joining a women’s football club.
The International Association of Athletics Federations Treasurer, José María Odriozola, has weighed into the Caster Semenya row by describing the South African as “biologically a man”.
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya has lamented the lack of support she believes she has received from other women in sport.
The ruling means the 28-year-old can no longer compete in events between the 400m and mile, as she did in June and July.
The IAAF has submitted its request to a Swiss court to overturn the order which means Caster Semenya can temporarily continue to compete in the 800m without taking hormone-suppressing drugs.
Caster Semenya will race in the 800m at the Stanford Diamond League on June 30 in her first outing over the distance since she launched a legal battle against new rules targeting athletes with hyperandrogenism.
Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has accused the global athletics governing body of using her as a human guinea pig as it emerged that the IAAF had sought to have her declared a “biological male” in proceedings before sport’s highest court.
Caster Semenya has denied declining to race at Sunday’s Diamond League Meeting in Morocco, instead claiming organisers “made it impossible for her” to run.
The Double 800 meters Olympic champion, Caster Semenya, hopes she can be an inspiration to the South Africa team competing at the women’s World Cup after paying a visit to their camp in Paris on Wednesday.
Caster Semenya has been named in Athletics South Africa’s preliminary team for the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.
World athletics body IAAF said on Tuesday it will fight a Swiss court decision to suspend its rules obliging athletes, including double Olympic champion Caster Semenya, to lower their testosterone levels in order to compete in certain events.
Caster Semenya is once again free to run the 800m without having to take medication – at least for the time being – after the Swiss supreme federal court ordered the IAAF to suspend its testosterone regulations for athletes with differences in sexual development with immediate effect.
Caster Semenya has filed an appeal to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland challenging the recent ruling against her by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the double Olympic champion has announced.