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Caster Semenya

7 January 1991 – present

Caster Semenya is a South African middle-distance runner who won the 800 metres at the 2009, 2011 and 2017 World Championships and at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. From 2018 her career was shaped by World Athletics regulations on athletes with differences of sex development, which she challenged in proceedings before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Swiss Federal Tribunal and the European Court of Human Rights.

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Born in Ga-Masehlong, Limpopo
7 January 1991

Born in a village in Moletjie, Limpopo Province, South Africa.

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Won the 800 metres at the World Championships in Berlin
19 August 2009

Took her first world title at the age of 18; the IAAF subsequently required her to undergo sex testing and she was cleared to compete again in July 2010.

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Studied sports science at North-West University
c. 2010

Enrolled at North-West University in Potchefstroom, where she also trained.

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Finished second in the 800 metres at the London Olympics
11 August 2012

Was later awarded the gold medal after the disqualification of Mariya Savinova for doping.

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Married Violet Raseboya
2015

Married her long-term partner, the runner Violet Raseboya.

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Won Olympic gold in the 800 metres in Rio de Janeiro
20 August 2016

Won the Olympic 800 metres final in 1:55.28.

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Won a third world title in the 800 metres in London
August 2017

Won the 800 metres at the 2017 World Championships and also took bronze in the 1500 metres.

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Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed her challenge to the DSD regulations
1 May 2019

The CAS panel found the IAAF rules on athletes with differences of sex development discriminatory but held the discrimination to be a necessary means of preserving a category of competition.

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European Court of Human Rights ruled in her favour
11 July 2023

A chamber of the court found that Switzerland had not provided sufficient procedural safeguards in her case, a finding later confirmed by the Grand Chamber in 2025.

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