(1991-01-07) 7 January 1991 (age 33) Pietersburg, South Africa
Alma mater
North-West University
Height
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight
70 kg (154 lb)
Association football career
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
2019–present
JVW F.C.
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Sport
Sport
Running
Event(s)
800 metres, 1500 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
400m: 49.62
NR
600m: 1:21.77 WB
800m: 1:54.25 NR[1]
1000m: 2:30.70 NR[2]
1500m: 3:59.92 NR[3]
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing South Africa
Olympic Games
2012 London
800 m
2016 Rio de Janeiro
800 m
World Championships
2009 Berlin
800 m
2011 Daegu
800 m
2017 London
800 m
2017 London
1500 m
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold Coast
800 m
2018 Gold Coast
1500 m
African Games
2015 Brazzaville
800 m
African Championships
2016 Durban
800 m
2016 Durban
1500 m
2016 Durban
4x400 m relay
2018 Asaba
400 m
2018 Asaba
800 m
Representing Africa
Continental Cup
2018 Ostrava
800 m
2018 Ostrava
400 m
2018 Ostrava
4x400 m mixed
Mokgadi Caster Semenya OIB (born 7 January 1991) is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals[4] and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 World Championships, where she also won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres. After the doping disqualification of Mariya Savinova, she was also awarded gold medals for the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.[5][6][7]
Following Semenya's victory at the 2009 World Championships, she was made to undergo sex testing, and cleared to return to competition the following year.[8][9] The decision to perform sex testing sparked controversy in the sporting world and in Semenya's home country of South Africa. Later reports disclosed that Semenya has the intersex condition 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency and natural testosterone levels in the typical male range.[10][11]
In 2019, new World Athletics rules came into force preventing athletes like Semenya with certain disorders of sex development (DSDs) from participating in 400m, 800m, and 1500m events in the female classification, unless they take medication to suppress their testosterone levels. Semenya has filed a series of legal cases to restore her ability to compete in these events without testosterone suppression, arguing that the World Athletics rules are discriminatory.[12]
^"Caster Semenya Runs 1:54.25 with No Rabbits to Become 4th Fastest Ever and Destroy World's Best in Paris". LetsRun.com. 30 June 2018.
^ Written at Berlin. "Semenya clocks 2:30.70 in ISTAF 1000m as Harting takes his final bow". Monaco: IAAF. 2 September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
^"IAAF Diamond League | Doha (QAT) | 4 May 2018" (PDF). static.sportresult.com. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
^"Caster Semenya Biography, Olympic Medals, Records and Age". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
^"Rio Olympics 2016: Caster Semenya wins 800m gold for South Africa". BBC Sport. BBC. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^"Caster Semenya awarded gold for 800m at 2012 London Games". eNCA. 10 February 2017. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
^"Caster Semenya given London 2012 gold medal after rival is stripped of title". The Guardian. 10 February 2017.
^"Semenya cleared to return to track immediately". Associated Press. 6 July 2010. Archived from the original on 9 July 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
^Kessel, Anna (6 July 2010). "Caster Semenya may return to track this month after IAAF clearance". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 July 2010.
^Ingle, Sean (18 June 2019). "Caster Semenya accuses IAAF of using her as a 'guinea pig experiment'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
^"Caster Semenya Q&A: Who is she and why is her case important?". BBC Sport. 15 November 2023. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
^"Caster Semenya Opens Up About Discrimination Battle Against World Athletics". 2 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
Mokgadi CasterSemenya OIB (born 7 January 1991) is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships...
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this particular claim. Following the case of South African athlete CasterSemenya, an athlete with a difference in sex development (DSD), the International...
medal of Mariya Savinova of Russia, based upon her biological passport. CasterSemenya of South Africa was advanced to gold, Ekaterina Poistogova of Russia...
women's race.[citation needed] Since 2017, she has been married to CasterSemenya, whom she first met in 2007. The couple has two children. "Violet RASEBOLA...
sports. It also draws on, but does not centre, the related stories of CasterSemenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Christine Mboma. The film premiered at the 2022...
continued to be a contentious and public issue into the 21st century, with CasterSemenya and Dutee Chand bearing periods of ineligibility and taking the IAAF...
verification tests on CasterSemenya without her consent. Thereafter, Athletics South Africa has been a key supporter in taking Semenya's case to the Court...
(1999), and 2:31.55 (1998). Faith Kipyegon also ran 2:29.92 (2020). CasterSemenya also ran 2:31.01 (2018). Svetlana Masterkova also ran 2:31.18 (1999)...
same event.[citation needed] She is also the main coach and mentor of CasterSemenya. Mutola was born in 1972 in the poor shanty town of Chamanculo on the...
recorded times below 4:03, with Jenny Simpson in second and DSD athlete CasterSemenya third. "I won the Olympics in 2016 but the victory at the World Championships...
Unequally Yoked. Retrieved March 25, 2019. Evans, Lauren (18 June 2018). "CasterSemenya Is Fighting New Track and Field Testosterone Rules". Jezebel. Retrieved...
2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018. Ben Snider-McGrath (19 February 2020). "CasterSemenya returns to racing, sets South African 300m record". runningmagazine...
(1948/1952), Peter Snell (1960/1964), and Rudisha (2012/2016). Only CasterSemenya (2012/2016) has won the women's title twice, but Maria Mutola, Kelly...
between Mboma and Masilingi and South African middle-distance runner CasterSemenya, who was the most prominent athlete to be affected by the World Athletics...
are: Maria José Martínez-Patiño (1985), Santhi Soundarajan (2006), CasterSemenya (2009), Annet Negesa (2012), and Dutee Chand (2014). Before the 2014...
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