Caster Semenya takes her fight to Lausanne, for the 1‚500m that is
Caster Semenya turns her attention to the 1‚500m on Thursday night‚ doing battle in the Swiss city of Lausanne which is also the seat of the court that will hear her case against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and its new rules on hyperandrogenism. Semenya‚ fresh from improving her own 800m South African record to 1min 54.25sec in Paris at the weekend‚ broke the 1‚500m national mark the last time she ran the distance‚ clocking 3:59,92 in Doha in May. In Switzerland she takes on four runners who boast quicker season’s bests. Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay is the fastest of 2018 so far at 3:57,64‚ ahead of Laura Muir of Scotland (3:58,53)‚ American Shelby Houlihan (3:59,06) and Rababe Arafi of Morocco (3:59,51). Then there are four more with faster personal bests: Ethiopians Dawit Seyaum (3:58,09) and Besu Sado (3:59,47)‚ Kenya’s Winny Chebet (3:59,16) and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands (3:56,05).
Semenya got the better of six of the eight at the 2017 wo...
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