Swiss Federal Tribunal - The African Mirror

Jul

2023

Semenya says discrimination verdict was ‘long time coming’

THE verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Caster Semenya raises "serious questions" about the validity of World Athletics’ requirement that female athletes with high natural testosterone levels take drugs to lower it, the South African athlete said. The ECHR ruled, by a slender majority of four votes to three, on Tuesday that the double Olympic 800m champion's original appeal against World Athletics regulations had not been properly heard by the Swiss Federal Tribunal, criticising the process followed rather than the verdict reached. Semenya, 32, is an athlete with XY chromosomes and differences in…

Jul

2023

By NICK SAID

Still a long road for Semenya despite winning discrimination ruling

NEWS

DOUBLE Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has taken a potentially small step towards competing at Paris 2024 but there is a long way to go in her battle against World Athletics regulations that have kept her largely idle for four years. South African Semenya, an athlete with differences in sexual development (DSDs), has been involved in a legal battle over regulations that prohibit her from running unless she medically lowers her natural testosterone levels. The 32-year-old middle-distance runner first took her fight to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), sport's highest court, and later the Swiss Federal Tribunal…

Jul

2023

By The African Mirror

Court says Semenya can appeal testosterone limit for female athletes

NEWS

EUROPE'S top human rights court ruled in favour of Olympic runner Caster Semenya, saying courts in Switzerland should give her a new chance to fight a requirement that female athletes with high natural testosterone take drugs to lower it. The South African double Olympic 800m champion, 32, had approached the European Court of Human Rights in February 2021 after losing appeals to CAS, the sport's highest court, and the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) in a long-running legal battle. The ECHR ruled, by a slender majority of four votes to three, that Semenya's original appeal against World Athletics regulations had not…

Sep

2020

By The African Mirror

Semenya loses appeal against CAS ruling over testosterone regulations

SPORT

DOUBLE Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has lost her appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) to set aside a 2019 Court of Arbitration (CAS) ruling that female athletes with high natural testosterone levels must take medication to reduce it. But the South African has indicated that she may continue her battle in the European and domestic courts ahead of the Olympics in Tokyo next year, vowing to "fight for human rights". Semenya approached the tribunal in May last year after CAS, sport's highest court, ruled that the regulations of the sport's governing body World Athletics were necessary for…