Semenya left out of South Africa team

WORLD 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has been left out of a preliminary South Africa squad to compete at the African Athletics Championships in Kenya later this year.

The 19-year-old, who underwent tests to determine her gender, has not raced since winning gold at last summer’s World Championships in Berlin.

However, she confirmed her return to competitive action last week, earmarking a meeting on June 24 in Zaragoza as the day she will race again. Semenya may yet be denied the opportunity to run in Spain depending on the results of her tests, which were first expected in November, before the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced last month that the case had still not been concluded.