Caster Semenya will compete in the 3,000 metres at the Diamond League’s Prefontaine Classic in Stanford, California on June 30, a distance she can race without reducing her testosterone levels.
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Caster Semenya has lost a landmark case against athletics’ governing body, meaning it will be allowed to restrict testosterone levels in female runners.
Caster Semenya will find out on Wednesday if she has won her appeal against IAAF rules to curb female runners’ high natural levels of testosterone.
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for 2019.
Double Olympic 800m champion, Caster Semenya says she is no threat to women’s sport in response to comments from Sebastian Coe.
Nigeria’s Yinka Ajayi was third in the race with a time of 51.34 seconds.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Semenya won the race with a time of 49.96 seconds, while Christine Botlogetwe of Botswana came second with 51.19 secs.
Africa’s fastest man with 9.85 secs Olusoji Fasuba and Tosin Oke, who set the current U.K. junior indoor record were also honoured.
In spite of Semenya’s dominance in the 800m, the Lagos State indigene said she would not underestimate, but would not be intimidated by the South African’s impressive records.
The squad features several athletes that won medals at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, including sprinters Akani Simbine and Henricho Bruintjies, Long Jump stars Luvo Manyonga and Ruswahl Samaai.
The only sprinter to capture the 100- and 200-meter track titles at three consecutive Olympics, Bolt retired after this year’s world championships in London. He holds the world record of 9.58 seconds in the 100 and 19.19 in the 200
She has had her results from July 2010 to August 2013 annulled, but has 45 days to appeal against the decision
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