Caster Semenya blows 5,000m field away
The Olympic and world 800m champion set the national championships alight in Germiston on Thursday evening
Caster Semenya taunted the world athletics authorities she is battling in court by storming to victory in the 5,000m at the national championships in Germiston on Thursday evening. The Olympic and world 800m champion, who has enjoyed varying degrees of success at the 400m and 1,500m, has challenged the IAAF’s proposed regulations for athletes with hyperandrogenism competing in her three main events. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland is expected to announce its verdict by the end of April. The IAAF did not target the 100m and 200m sprints, nor races longer than the 1,6km in its bid to curb SA’s most successful athlete of all time, so Semenya stepped up to the 5,000m to take on defending champion Dominique Scott and even Kesa Moletsane, winner of the national 10km cross-country trials in January, and she triumphed convincingly. Semenya, comfortably the fastest in the 1,500m heats earlier in the day, took the lead early on the fourth lap and when Scott attacked at the ...
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