Semenya's decade-long legal battle enters its final phase today. The case is heard by the European Court of Human Rights. The final verdict is expected in two months' time. "I hope the court's ...

Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion over 800m. Between 2009 and 2019, the South African dominated her sport, with victory in the Doha Diamond League 800m in ...

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 ...

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya said she is "not going to be ashamed because I am different" as she focuses on her long-running dispute with athletics authorities. The South African, who is ...

Caster Semenya, a South African Olympic runner, won her discrimination case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) last week. Yet paradoxically, Semenya and many other women athletes may ...

Caster Semenya competes in the 800m at the Olympics in Rio. Celso Pupo/Shutterstock. If Semenya wishes to establish that the regulations themselves violate her human rights, she will probably need ...

Semenya, who won the women’s 800 meters at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, declined to lower her testosterone levels and has repeatedly pushed back against the regulation.

Semenya, the 32-year-old South African athlete who won gold in the 800-meter races in 2012 and 2016, was barred from participating in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics after World Athletes ...

Caster Semenya has won her appeal at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge whether her rights had been infringed by rules requiring women athletes with natural high testosterone ...

At the time, Semenya said the rules were discriminatory, and contraceptive pills made her feel "constantly sick". She lost her appeal to the SFT the following year to set aside the 2019 CAS ruling.

The European Court of Human Rights sided with two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya in her appeal against World Athletics rules that have kept her from elite competitions. However, it is ...