World 800m champion Caster Semenya comfortably won her first race in 11 months in a time of 2:04.22 in Finland on Thursday night.
Women’s 800m champion Caster Semenya has been left out of the SA team for this month’s African championships despite being cleared to race again.
Caster Semenya will not compete in the World Junior Championships in Canada but might run in the African championships in Kenya later in July.
Caster Semenya has been cleared to compete as a woman after nearly a year of speculation over her gender, the IAAF confirmed on Tuesday.
The Sports Ministry on Thursday cancelled a press conference at short notice to announce a decision on Caster Semenya’s possible return to action.
Caster Semenya’s future could become clearer on Thursday when she holds a news conference to discuss the "outcomes" of her gender dispute.
Caster Semenya, picked out by the moon as a long training session ends, does not look like an athlete with the cares of the world on her shoulders.
Caster Semenya should be allowed to compete immediately in female events, her lawyers said on Wednesday.
Caster Semenya has pencilled June 24 as the date for her return to the track, after almost a year on the sidelines following her gender controversy.
Caster Semenya’s lawyers say they will do whatever is necessary to ensure the world 800m champion can compete without restriction this season.
Caster Semenya, the world 800m champion, on Wednesday claimed she would return to competition this season and accused the IAAF of damaging her career.
Caster Semenya will not return to competitive athletics until her gender-verification case has been resolved, Athletics SA announced on Tuesday.
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/ 18 January 2010
Athlete Caster Semenya has not been disqualified from participating in any future athletics meetings, lawyers representing her said on Monday.
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/ 15 January 2010
After some confusion Sascoc has made it clear that athlete Caster Semenya can’t compete locally until a final decisions is made on her gender tests.
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/ 15 January 2010
Officials were tight-lipped on Friday when asked whether athlete Caster Semenya can compete while gender-verification tests are being finalised.
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/ 14 January 2010
Women’s 800 metres world champion Caster Semenya is set to return to the track in February despite her still being in the middle of a gender row.
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/ 19 November 2009
The results of a gender test performed on Caster Semenya will be kept confidential, the Department of Sport and Recreation said on Thursday.
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/ 19 November 2009
Caster Semenya faces another delay over her future after it was revealed on Wednesday that medical testing is still not complete.
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/ 16 November 2009
Athletics SA (ASA) would not accept a takeover by South Africa’s Olympic body Sascoc, said Simon Dlamini, chairperson of ASA’s finance committee.
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/ 15 November 2009
The law firm representing world 800m champion Caster Semenya said on Saturday she was considering taking legal action against the Guardian.
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/ 14 November 2009
Caster Semenya, the teenage world champion runner, has spoken of her difficulties coping with her newfound fame.
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/ 7 November 2009
Nedbank and the African National Congress Youth League cleared the air on Friday over sponsorship and transformation, both said in statements.
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/ 5 November 2009
SA’s Olympic governing body Sascoc has suspended ASA president Leonard Chuene, the board and its members over their handling of Caster Semenya.
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/ 5 November 2009
Athletics South Africa has apologised ”unconditionally” over its handling of athlete Caster Semenya’s gender-verification test.
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/ 30 October 2009
The ANC Caster Semenya support task team recently released a statement advising the IAAF to declare the gender tests null and void.
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/ 30 October 2009
The ANC has finally turned against Athletics South Africa and its president Leonard Chuene, accusing Chuene of lying over the Caster Semenya saga.
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/ 29 October 2009
The ANC task team probing the mishandling of the gender-verification process Caster Semenya will hand the matter to the Sports Ministry.
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/ 25 October 2009
ANCYL president Julius Malema has lambasted the ”foreign-owned” media for writing negatively around Semenya.
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/ 24 October 2009
The head of track and field’s world governing body has called off a visit to South Africa to discuss the results of Caster Semenya’s gender tests.
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/ 23 October 2009
The doctor of the SA athletics team, Harold Adams, has accused ASA boss Leonard Chuene of deliberately politicising and sowing confusion.
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/ 16 October 2009
The ANC wants the IAAF to declare null and void the results of athlete Caster Semenya gender verification tests, it said on Friday.
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/ 11 October 2009
World track and field’s governing body will begin the process of agreeing the definition of a woman in an athletics context next week.