In a move sure to encourage her many fans, Caster Semenya has won her second race of the week, taking gold in the women’s 800m at the Savo Games, in Finland on Sunday, in a season’s best 2:04.48.
Semenya shaved more than two seconds off her previous season best – recorded on Wednesday, which was her first competitive outing since last year’s London Olympic Games.
The talented SA track star has been recovering from a long-term knee injury, which has kept her out of competition and the public eye, but the talented star’s supporters will recall earlier times when her capacity was in question.
Her earlier successes aside, the clock is ticking and time is against Semenya as the former 800m world champion struggles to hit the 2-minute-or-better mark by 29 July to qualify for the 14th World Championships in Athletics, after being omitted from Athletics SA’s provisional list of 30 athletes.
ESPN said Semenya’s win on Wednesday was at a “lower-level 800 race in Finland on Wednesday in a sluggish 2 minutes, 6.58 seconds and has only 10 days to clock a qualifying time of 2:00 or better to make the worlds.”
The global sports news agency rated Semenya’s changes of reaching the worlds as marginal.
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