Caster Semenya has been included in the provisional team for the African championships in Mauritius in early June, but Wayde van Niekerk is the notable omission.
The 400m world record-holder, who withdrew from the SA championships in Cape Town last month because of a hamstring niggle, didn’t compete during the qualifying window from January 1 to April 23.Semenya will compete alongside Dominique Scott and Kyla Jacobs in the 5,000m, where she is still trying to obtain the 5min 10.00sec qualifying time for the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, before the June 26 deadline.
The continental showpiece, which is scheduled to run from June 8 to 12, will be the first time that Semenya will compete for SA over 5,000m. It is also her first international assignment since the 2018 Commonwealth Games after which World Athletics introduced its new gender eligibility rules.testosterone-lowering medication to compete in distances from 400m to 1,500m and has taken her fight to the European Court of Human Rights.The SA team of 74 features a range of veterans and youngsters, made up of 38 women and 36 men.
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