Trans athletes, especially trans women and girls, have come under fire over the last few years, but trans women have been ...

Maloney moved ahead of the following all-time top 10 performers: Francine Niyonsaba (Burundi) 1:23.18, Pamela Jelimo (Kenya) 1:23.35, and Keely Hodgkinson (Great Britain) 1:23.41i. Including the ...

followed by Francine Niyonsaba from Burundi and Margaret Wambui from Kenya. All three had faced allegations of not being real women, prompting tears from some of their European competitors ...

Fellow runners Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi, Kenya's Margaret Nyairera Wambui and Namibia's Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have also been ruled ineligible to compete in competitions due ...

Located in Western Rwanda, Butare and Bweyeye sectors of Rusizi District are part of the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River basin bordering Nyungwe National Park, fringed by high mountains in Rwanda and ...

Another athlete, Olympic 800-meter silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi, also has said she would not undergo treatment. While Semenya struggled at longer distances, Niyonsaba had relative ...

Another athlete, Olympic 800-meter silver medalist Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi, also has said she would not undergo treatment. While Semenya struggled at longer distances, Niyonsaba had relative ...

Marco M. Mantovani//Getty Images Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi, the 2016 silver medalist at 800 meters, is also a DSD athlete. After the 2019 ruling, she more successfully moved up in distance ...

World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female competitions if they have gone through male puberty, the sport's governing body said on Thursday. The council also voted ...

At the 2020 Olympics, South Africa's Semenya and Burundi's Niyonsaba were both barred from the 800m before turning their attention to the 5,000m. Semenya failed to qualify for the Games while ...

Since being barred from the 800m, Burundi's Niyonsaba turned her attention to the 5,000, winning the Diamond League Final in 2021. She was disqualified in her heat of the 5,000m at the Tokyo ...

Burundi’s Rodrigue Kwizera and his compatriot Francine Niyonsaba captured comfortable victories at the 42nd Cross Internacional de Venta de Banos, the ninth Gold level meeting of this season’s World ...