FILE PHOTO: Athletics - ASA After Dark meeting womens 800m run - Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa 22/3/16 Caster Semenya competes in this picture taken March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya will challenge a female classification rule imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), her lawyers said on Monday.
The double Olympic and triple world 800 metres champion faces having to take medication to lower her higher than normal levels of naturally-produced testosterone, which the sport's governing IAAF has deemed gives her an unfair advantage.
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