Caster Semenya

Caster Semenya is one of the most extraordinary and scandalous figures in the world of sports. The athlete from South Africa is receiving mixed responses from a wide audience due to her physiological characteristics. In sports, its main distances are races of 800 and 1500 meters. The runner is 178 cm tall and weighs 73 kg.

The athletics star was born on January 7, 1991 in St. Petersburg, South Africa. As a child, Caster was different from other girls living in the neighborhood.

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Semenya preferred to spend time in active games with the boys, she enjoyed playing football. In addition, the parents sent the child to a boys' class.

Caster entered the sports department of the University of Pretoria in 2008. At the same time, the young athlete began to participate in athletics competitions. The winner for the runner was the youth world championship, where Semenya won the 800-meter distance.

The next major victory in the girl's sports biography was brought by the African Championship, held among juniors in 2009. There, the athlete showed the best results at distances of 800 and 1500 meters. By this time she was already running as a professional adult athlete. The 800-meter distance again became victorious for Caster in the same year - the runner took gold at the World Championships in Athletics, showing the best time of the season.

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Such brilliant results for a young athlete caused the majority of sports fans to mistrust her gender. In addition, she had a masculine figure, brutal, masculine features and refused to change with other girls in the locker room.

A special test has been ordered by the International Association of Athletics Federations to determine if the athlete has male characteristics. According to the results of the study, it was found that Semenya is a woman with a congenital hyperandrogenic syndrome.

In order for the athlete to continue her sports career, she needed to undergo hormone therapy, which lowers the level of testosterone in the blood. By 2012, the runner was selected to compete in the London Olympics. At the opening ceremony, the athlete carried the flag of South Africa, and in the final race she won silver, losing the victory to Russian Maria Savinova.

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In 2017, the results of the London Olympics were revised, Savinova was accused of doping and disqualified. The Olympic champion title passed to the African runner. A new resonance in the problem of athletes with hyperandrogenic syndrome occurred in 2015, when Indian sprinter Duty Chand won a testosterone limit case in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

In court, studies were presented proving that testosterone levels do not affect athletes' endurance and performance. From this point on, those who were undergoing hormone therapy could stop the treatment. The results of hormone withdrawal had a good effect on Caster's physical condition. In 2016, at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the girl won the final 800 meters race and won the gold medal.

In April 2018, the International Association of Athletics Federations changed the rules for participation in races. Now only runners whose testosterone level does not exceed 5 nanomoles per liter can compete in distances from 400 m to 1500 m. If the indicators are exceeded, it is necessary to artificially reduce them with medicines. Semenya, whose data did not meet the norm, refused to take hormones.

In 2015, the athlete entered into a same-sex marriage with an athlete named Violet Rasseboya. The ceremony took place in South Africa according to the canons provided for the registration of heterosexual couples.

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At the wedding, Caster was dressed in a purple men's suit, thus emphasizing that the pair plays the role of the groom. Later in an interview, the runner admitted that she was not shy about her orientation.

In 2019, Semenya was not allowed to participate in the World Championships in Athletics. Information appeared in the press that the athlete decided to leave running and take up football professionally. Information about this was posted on the website by the football club JVW, indicating that the girl had already signed a contract with him.

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The athlete's Instagram has a lot of personal photos, as well as pictures with motivational texts.

The photographs show that the athlete prefers men's style in clothes, does not wear dresses and does not show herself in a swimsuit.

Olympic Games

2012 - Rio de Janeiro (gold, distance 800 m) 2016 - London (gold, distance 800 m)

World championships

2009 - Berlin (gold, distance 800 m) 2011 - Daegu (silver, distance 800 m) 2017 - London (bronze, distance 1500 m) 2017 - London (gold, distance 800 m)

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Caster Semenya Net Worth 2021

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Caster Semenya Net Worth 2020

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Caster Semenya Net Worth 2019

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Caster Semenya Net Worth 2018

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Caster Semenya Net Worth 2017

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Caster Semenya Net Worth 2016

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Caster Semenya Net Worth 2015

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