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WOMAN CHAMPION: Could be man, Gender to be verified
WELLNESS — By MainStreetMantra Desk on August 20, 2009 at 3:44 pm
ATHLETE'S GENDER IN DOUBT
New 800m world champion Caster Semenya has been “humiliated” after being asked to take a gender test, says the head of South Africa’s athletics body.
South African athletics officials have rallied behind controversial new running star Caster Semenya, who won the women’s world 800 meters title just hours after the sport’s governing body asked for the 18-year-old’s gender to be verified.
Semenya crushed her rivals by streaking away to secure victory in a time of one minute 55.45 seconds — the best in the world this year and more than eight seconds quicker than her fastest effort of 2008.
She finished more than two seconds clear of second-placed Kenyan Janeth Jepkosgei, the 2007 champion.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress earlier urged the country to rally round “our golden girl”. Her family has also insisted she is female. “I know she’s a woman — I raised her myself,” the 18-year-old’s grandmother said.
Her mother Dorcus Semenya told the Star newspaper that doubts about her daughter’s gender were motivated by “jealousy”. “If you go at my home village and ask any of my neighbours, they would tell you that Mokgadi [Caster Semenya] is a girl,” she said.
“They know because they helped raise her. People can say whatever they like but the truth will remain, which is that my child is a girl. I am not concerned about such things.”
In an interview with South Africa’s Times newspaper, her 80-year-old grandmother Maphuthi Sekgala said Ms Semenya had been teased when younger for her boyish looks.
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