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Caster Semenya

November 2023

  • Caster Semenya at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London.

    Book of the day
    The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya review – the right to run

  • South Africa's Caster Semenya competes in the women's 800m heats at the athletics event of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 8, 2012 in London. AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/GettyImages)

    Observer book of the week
    The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya review – running for her life

28 October 2023

  • Caster Semenya shot in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2023. Portraits by Alice Mann

    Weekend
    Olympian Caster Semenya speaks out, Marina Hyde on GB News, plus the ghost hunter turned skeptic – podcast

    Marina Hyde wonders if anything will change, as GB News is found to have breached Ofcom rules yet again; American writer Kenny Biddle, reveals how he became a full-time paranormal investigator and sceptic; and Olympic champion Caster Semenya talks labels, leaked medical records and how lowering her hormones took its toll on her body.
  • Caster Semenya shot in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2023. Portraits by Alice Mann, Styling by Thomas Van Dyk, Hair & Make up: Alex Botha, Styling Assistant: Jade Ayla. Overcoat, shirt and trousers by Thebe Magugu; Sandals by Europa Art; Jewellery Caster's own.

    Caster Semenya: ‘How would I label myself? I’m an African. I’m a woman. I’m a different woman’

    She’s the Olympic gold-winner whose elevated testosterone levels led people to question her right to compete. With a few choice words for World Athletics, the middle-distance runner talks about labels, leaked medical records and how lowering her hormones took its toll on her body
  • Caster Semenya shot in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 2023

    ‘You are not here for a doping test. You are here for a gender test’: athlete Caster Semenya on how her life changed for ever

    In this extract from her autobiography, the South African runner reveals what went on behind the scenes at the 2009 world championships in Berlin

July 2023

  • Caster Semenya arriving for a hearing at the court of arbitration for sport in 2019

    ‘A long time coming’: Caster Semenya ‘elated’ to win discrimination case

  • Caster Semenya

    European court rules that Caster Semenya’s human rights were violated

June 2023

  • Caster Semenya.

    Caster Semenya to publish ‘unflinching’ memoir with Stormzy’s #Merky Books

    In The Race to Be Myself, the Olympian athlete will detail her battle for permission to compete as a woman with hyperandrogenism

July 2022

  • South Africa’s Caster Semenya finished 13th out of 16 runners in her 5,000-metre heat at the world athletics championships in Eugene.

    Caster Semenya out of world 5,000m as Coe signals tougher female sport rules

    Caster Semenya’s first appearance in the world championships since 2017 saw her knocked out without fuss or fanfare after finishing 45 seconds off qualifying for Saturday’s 5,000m final

May 2022

  • Caster Semenya first rose to fame when she won the 800m world title in 2009

    Caster Semenya offered to show officials her vagina to prove she is female

    Caster Semenya has told HBO that she offered to show her vagina to athletics officials when she was 18 to prove she was female

September 2021

  • Sean Ingle

    Sportblog
    World Athletics’ rules threaten to leave more female athletes stuck in limbo

    Sean Ingle
    Christine Mboma knows the faster she runs the 200m the clearer her advantages with difference in sex development become

April 2021

  • Caster Semenya

    Caster Semenya: ‘They’re killing sport. People want extraordinary performances’

    South African Olympic champion on her ECHR appeal, her 5,000m ambitions and campaigning for athletes like her in the future

February 2021

  • Caster Semenya

    Caster Semenya launches final bid to save career and defend Olympic title

    The double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya has filed an application to the European court of human rights in a final bid to overturn the ban on her defending her title at Tokyo

December 2020

  • Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya, right

    World Athletics accused over 'abusive sex testing' of athletes from global south

    Human Rights Watch says testing regulations are demeaning and target women based on racial stereotypes

September 2020

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    Caster Semenya's Olympic hopes fade as runner loses testosterone rules appeal

    The double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya appears to have lost her long-running legal battle against regulations requiring women with high testosterone to take medication to compete internationally between 400m and a mile

October 2019

  • South African Olympic medallist Caster Semenya

    Testosterone boosts women's athletic performance, study shows

    Research confirms increase in endurance as IAAF imposes upper limit on trans female athletes

September 2019

  • Caster Semenya has joined South African football club JVW FC while she appeals a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that has brought her athletics career to a halt

    Caster Semenya starts 'new journey' after joining football team

    The two-time Olympic 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya appears to be preparing for a career outside of athletics after joining a women’s football club

August 2019

  • Caster Semenya: I have high testosterone, so what? – video

    Semenya continues her fight against a regulation that would make her take testosterone lowering medication

July 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: South African athlete Caster Semenya speaks with journalists after she raced during a 2,000 metres at a small meeting in Montreuil, near Paris<br>FILE PHOTO: South African athlete Caster Semenya speaks with journalists after she raced during a 2,000 metres for the first time after her ban due to elevated testosterone levels, at a small meeting in Montreuil, near Paris, France, June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

    Caster Semenya blocked from competing at world championships

    Caster Semenya has expressed disappointment over a court ruling that means she will be prevented from defending her 800m title at the world championships

June 2019

  • Caster Semenya before a race during the 2017 world championships in London

    Caster Semenya accuses IAAF of using her as a ‘guinea pig experiment’

    Semenya said of the IAAF, who ruled she must take medication to control testosterone: ‘I will not allow [them] to use me and my body again’
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