Athletics: Caster Semenya coming to Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
17.07.2018 17:11
South African runner Caster Semenya will be among stars competing at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial meet in southern Poland in August.
![Caster Semenya. Photo: Yann Caradec from Paris, France (Meeting de Paris, Stade Charlety - 30 June 2018) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://external.polskieradio.pl/files/6dab37f7-72da-4e23-9f1e-316e8b375c91.file "Caster Semenya. Photo: Yann Caradec from Paris, France (Meeting de Paris, Stade Charlety - 30 June 2018) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
Caster Semenya. Photo: Yann Caradec from Paris, France (Meeting de Paris, Stade Charlety - 30 June 2018) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Semenya is a double Olympic and triple world champion in the 800 metres. She was found to have higher than normal levels of testosterone, which some female competitors have complained gives her an unfair advantage. Critics have questioned whether Semenya is a woman.
The Kamila Skolimowska Memorial meet takes place on August 22 in the southern city of Chorzów. It will be Semenya’s first competition in Poland. She will compete in the 400 metres.
The meet is named after a Polish hammer thrower and Olympic gold medallist who died of a pulmonary embolism at the age 26 in 2009.
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Source: PAP