Caster Semenya, 18, is South African female runner who is competing on the IAAF World Athletics Championship 2009 currently being held in Berlin, the capital city of Germany. Caster Semenya won the first place for Women’s 800 meters on the night of August 19, 2009.
Caster Semenya, of South Africa’s Limpopo province, emerged from relative nowhere to the international athletics scene when clocking 1:56.72-the best result this year before she score a 1:55:45 in Berlin-in the 800 metres during African Junior Championship in Mauritius in July.
Because of her strikingly muscular physique and the astonishing running time last month, Caster Semenya sparked speculations that she might be a man and was ordered to do a gender check. The tests by a group of doctors consisting of endocrinologist, gynaecologist, internal medicine expert, gender expert and psychologist, on Semenya’s sex are under the way. The results will be ready within weeks.
South African althetics officials assured Caster Semenya is definitely female. But some experts fear Semenya might suffer from a rare condition in which individuals can exhibit both male and female chromosomes or have ambiguous genitalia.
Source: Dailymail
