Track bans transgender athletes, tightens rules for Semenya
March 23, 2023 GMTTrack and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday, while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing.
Semenya, Coburn join XC regulars at world championships
February 17, 2023 GMTCaster Semenya has won Olympic and world titles on the track over 800 meters but can’t run that distance competitively now so she’s taking on cross-country at a world championships course more synonymous with an iconic Australian auto race.
World track body proposal: No ban on transgender athletes
January 25, 2023 GMTCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Track and field's governing body is facing renewed criticism for a proposal to allow transgender athletes to continue competing in top female events, although with stricter rules.
Semenya finishes 13th, doesn’t advance in 5,000 at worlds
July 21, 2022 GMTEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — In one way, this race was like so many in the past for Caster Semenya. When she crossed the finish line, there wasn't anyone near her.
This race, though, was the 5,000 meters — not her specialty, the 800 — and when Semenya crossed the line all alone, she was in 13th place.
Caster Semenya is back, so is her sport’s thorniest problem
July 19, 2022 GMTCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Champion runner Caster Semenya heads into this year's world championships with virtually no chance to win.
On Wednesday in Eugene, Oregon, the 31-year-old, three-time world champion at 800 meters will run instead in the 5,000-meter race.
5000m contender Niyonsaba out of world champs with injury
July 11, 2022 GMTFrancine Niyonsaba withdrew from the world championships with a foot injury on Monday, just when she looked to be a good bet for her first major medal in the 5,000 meters after being forced to switch to long-distance events by the contentious testosterone rules.
In big surprise, Semenya listed to run at worlds in Eugene
July 8, 2022 GMTCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Caster Semenya is listed to compete at next week's world championships in Eugene, Oregon, potentially setting up a surprise return to the big stage for the two-time Olympic champion who is still banned from her favorite race, and still at the heart of one of sport's most contentious issues.
Semenya says she offered to show track officials her body
May 23, 2022 GMTDouble Olympic champion Caster Semenya said she offered to show her vagina to athletics officials when she was just 18 years old to prove she was a female. In an interview with HBO Real Sports, she also accused track and field's world governing body of making her take medication if she wanted to compete that “tortured” her and left her fearing she was going to have a heart attack.
Caster Semenya working on memoir, ‘Silence All the Noise’
October 5, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya is working on a book about her triumphs as a runner and her experiences as an intersex woman with naturally high testosterone levels, including her battles to be eligible for competition.
Teenagers make 200 final in Olympic testosterone controversy
August 2, 2021 GMTTOKYO (AP) — Two 18-year-old Namibian runners threw track and field's contentious testosterone issue back into the Olympic spotlight Monday when they blazed into the women's 200-meter final in Tokyo just weeks after being barred from the 400-meter race.
Semenya misses Tokyo, may be forced out of Olympics for good
July 3, 2021 GMTCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — This could be it for Caster Semenya and the Olympics.
Forced out of her favorite race by World Athletics' testosterone rules, the two-time Olympic champion in the 800 meters took a late shot at qualifying for Tokyo in the 5,000 meters, an event not affected by the hormone regulations.
Namibia teenagers barred from Olympic 400 over testosterone
July 2, 2021 GMTCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Two 18-year-old runners from Namibia were barred Friday from running in the 400 meters at the Olympics because of high natural testosterone levels, becoming the latest female athletes to be affected by the same contentious regulations that have sidelined Caster Semenya.
Semenya fails to reach Olympic qualifying time for 5,000
June 30, 2021 GMTLIEGE, Belgium (AP) — Caster Semenya failed in her bid to achieve the qualifying time for the 5,000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics during a meet in Belgium on Wednesday.
Semenya was taking part in a race at Liege which was held after an Olympic qualifying deadline of June 29 had already expired.
Still too fast: Caster Semenya arrested for speeding
May 12, 2021 GMTCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Olympic champion Caster Semenya was sentenced to 50 hours of community service for speeding while driving in South Africa, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The runner was arrested last Thursday and released on $35 bail, the National Prosecuting Authority said in a statement to The Associated Press...
Semenya loses at Swiss supreme court over testosterone rules
September 8, 2020 GMTGENEVA (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya lost her long legal battle Tuesday against track and field’s rules that limit female runners’ naturally high testosterone levels...
Semenya switches to 200, still aiming to turn up in Tokyo
March 13, 2020 GMTCaster Semenya is looking for another Olympic run.
A different one, too.
Banned from competing in her favorite race and defending her title, the Olympic 800-meter champion is trying to make the Tokyo Games anyway — by switching to the 200 meters...
Not done: Caster Semenya runs again, says ‘I’m here to stay’
February 15, 2020 GMTCaster Semenya ran her first public race in eight months and broke the national 300-meter record at a low-level meet at a South African university before proclaiming: “I'm here to stay.”
The Olympic 800-meter champion said the race Friday night at the University of Johannesburg, which also featured high school students, was her season-opening event.
Defending champion Caster Semenya sidelined at worlds
September 29, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Defending 800-meter champion Caster Semenya has dominated her event like no other female athlete in track over the past 10 years, winning two Olympic golds and three world championships.
Defiant Caster Semenya appeals testosterone ruling
May 29, 2019 GMTOlympic champion runner Caster Semenya appealed Wednesday against a decision by sport's highest court to uphold highly contentious new rules in track and field that force her to take testosterone-suppressing medication or have surgery in order to compete in female races at top international events.
‘Hell no:’ Defiant Semenya wins, says she won’t take drugs
May 3, 2019 GMTCaster Semenya was defiant in every way at what very well could be her last 800 meter race.
Caster Semenya dealt another setback over testosterone rules
May 2, 2019 GMTTrack and field's governing body said Thursday it plans to enforce its new rules on testosterone levels in female runners more widely than sports' highest court is recommending, dealing another setback to Olympic sensation Caster Semenya...
Semenya case: A clash over ensuring an even playing field
May 2, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — A court ruling requiring Olympic running sensation Caster Semenya to lower her testosterone levels goes to the heart of a dilemma facing the sports world: How to avoid discrimination against intersex or transgender athletes while ensuring that competitions are fair...
Olympic runner Semenya loses fight over testosterone rules
May 1, 2019 GMTGENEVA (AP) — The sports world's highest court ruled Wednesday that Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya and other female runners like her with unusually high testosterone must take medication to reduce their levels of the male sex hormone if they want to compete in certain events — a landmark decision with far-reaching ramifications for other women's sports...
AP explains: the ruling against Olympian Caster Semenya
May 1, 2019 GMTGENEVA (AP) — In one of the most ethically and scientifically challenging cases in modern sports law, two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya lost her appeal of a rule that requires women to medically reduce their natural levels of testosterone in order to compete in certain track events...
Sports’ future in balance as Semenya-IAAF showdown opens
February 18, 2019 GMTLAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The longtime standoff between Olympic champion Caster Semenya and track and field's governing body over issues of gender, hormones and performance in sports reached a pivotal phase on Monday as a key tribunal began hosting a planned five-day hearing in a case that could have massive repercussions throughout sports...
Caster Semenya’s appearance being questioned is an unfortunate, unnecessary painful ordeal
August 18, 2016 GMTANALYSIS/OPINION:
" Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!