Just in: Caster Semenya wins appeal on testosterone rules

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of South African Olympic Champion Caster Semenya regarding her testosterone levels.

Semenya was barred from participating in Olympics and in 2021 she filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights challenging restrictions of testosterone in female athletes.

Semenya refused to take testosterone-lowering medication as mandated by the sport’s international federation, World Athletics, if she wants to compete at her favoured distance.

VICTORY FOR CASTER SEMENYA

The World Athletics governing body in 2018 banned Semenya and other female athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) from races between 400 metres and a mile unless they take hormone-suppressing drugs.

Semenya, unsuccessfully challenged those rules at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court.

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On February 19, she made another fresh attempt — taking the matter to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

“Semenya’s ongoing fight for dignity, equality, and the human rights of women in sport took a crucial step forward with the filing of an application” to the ECHR, her lawyers Norton Rose Fulbright, announced in a statement.

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Additional reporting by AFP.