Caster Semenya is in no hurry to break the 800m record
The new world champion says she is trying to enjoy what she does and will start thinking about breaking records from next year
New world champion Caster Semenya on Sunday said she would like to break the 800m world record‚ but she laughed off suggestions it would happen soon. The South African star broke her own national record as she clocked 1min 55.16sec to win her third world championship gold in London. That is nearly two seconds slower than the 1:53.28 world mark set by Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983‚ eight years before Semenya was born. "[The] world record is not something you can plan for in two months‚" said Semenya‚ who has broken her South African record four times since mid-July 2016. "I think probably from next year that’s when we’ll think about trying to break world records‚ but at the moment we’re just trying to enjoy what we do. We love running." Semenya set her first South African mark in 2009‚ but she had to wait until 2016 before doing it again‚ incrementally. First she took 12-hundredths of a second off her old record‚ then she shaved another five-hundredths off‚ followed by one-hundredth ...
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