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Caster Semenya
South African middle-distance runner, double Olympic 800m champion (2012, 2016) and three-time world champion
The unbeatable 800m champion whose body became the battleground for one of sport's hardest questions about sex, fairness and human rights.
The rise
Born Mokgadi Caster Semenya in a village near Polokwane in Limpopo, she burst onto the scene by winning the 800m world title in Berlin in 2009 as an unknown teenager, immediately igniting a global storm over her sex.
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