Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya says she is "elated" that "justice has spoken" after winning her appeal against the government of Switzerland at the European Court of Human Rights.
Semenya, 32 was legally identified as female at birth, but was born with differences of sexual development (DSD) which means her body produces higher levels of testosterone than women without DSD. The South African has been in a long-running dispute with World Athletics after they introduced rules requiring athletes with DSD to undergo hormone treatment in order to compete.
The rules were introduced by World Athletics five years ago and Semenya has been fighting them in court ever since. And having been unsuccessful in legal battles at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, she took her fight to the ECHR which ruled that her rights had not been protected.
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