Caster Semenya, cleared of 5,000 on her return to World Cups

the south africa Caster Semeyatwo-time Olympic and three-time world champion in the 800 meters, returned to the world championships on Wednesday after a five-year absence and became removed at 5,000 meterstest in which he tends to fail in his specialty because of his natural excess of testosterone (hyperandrogenism).

Before completing the second km in the first series, the group separated, at the pace set by the Japanese Ririka HironakaY Semenya, too corpulent for a long-distance test, formed behind. It just is thirteenth with a time of 15:46.12almost a minute behind the winner, the Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay (14:52.64). The first five and five more by the times passed in the final.

Since the 2017 World Championships in London, where she won her last gold medal in the 800m, Semenya has not competed in her event again. She is held back by her excess testosterone, and her refusal to take medication to reduce it to the limits (5 nanomoles per liter of blood) that since the 2019 World Athletics have required women to compete in the female category.

According to current regulations, athletes must keep their testosterone levels below that figure for a continuous period of at least six months if they want to compete at distances between 400 meters and one mile (1,609 meters).

Semenya, 31, considered a hero in South Africa, is the best-known case of an athlete with hyperandrogenism. For three years he has been in a legal battle with World Athletics, an organization he accuses of imposing discriminatory, human rights and unethical rules, because they force healthy people to take drugs to compete. .

In order to stay on the slopes without undergoing treatment, Semenya decided to change her profile as a runner and try to adapt to other specialties that are not affected by these regulations, but so far she has not been able to stand 200 meters or 5,000.