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Caster Semenya competed in the women's 800 meters. Caster is from South Africa.Caster Semenya of South Africa competed in the women's 800 Meters Semi-Final during the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on August 17, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Caster Semenya is facing accusations that she is actually a man.
Caster Semenya's best time in the 800 meters is 1:56:72 milliseconds. Semenya has a strong physical build and has slight facial hair. The IAAF is aware of widespread accusations that 'she may actually be a he', and is conducting genetic screening to test for gender.
Other female athletes have been dogged by accusations that they are concealing their true identity. The most famous case was the Polish runner Stella Walsh, who won Olympic gold in both the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. She was found, after her death, to posses male genitalia.
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Jukka Harkonen, Semenya's agent, said the runner's final schedule for the year still had to be worked out by himself and Semenya's new coach Maria Mutola but it was likely that she would run only one 800m race in South Africa this year, at her national ...
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DURBAN Feb 3 (Reuters) - Caster Semenya, South Africa's former 800 metre women's world champion, will scale back her competitive races this year so that she is in perfect shape for the London Olympics, her agent said on Friday. Semenya, 21, the ...
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As the storm around Caster Semenya continued to rage, the leaders of sport in South Africa, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), said the 18-year old 800m world champion was ... president Gideon Sam suggested calm minds ...
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CASTER SEMENYA has teamed up with one-time Olympic champ Maria Mutola for London 2012. The South African, 20, won world 800m gold at Berlin 2009 before a controversial gender test. Semenya took a year off but claimed silver at the worlds in South Korea this year.
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Caster Semenya is a South African athlete who won the women's 800m race at the World Athletics Championships in 2009. Following her win, her gender was questioned and she decided not to compete again until her gender was verified. However, the process has not been smooth, and the process had not yet been resolved as of March 2010. See more about...more
Caster Semenya is a South African athlete who won the women's 800m race at the World Athletics Championships in 2009. Following her win, her gender was questioned and she decided not to compete again until her gender was verified. However, the process has not been smooth, and the process had not yet been resolved as of March 2010. See more about Caster Semenya here.
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