World governing body votes to exclude transgender women athletes
World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female competitions if they have gone through male puberty, the sport's governing body said on Thursday.
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World Athletics set to tighten DSD, transgender rules
World Athletics is likely to tighten rules governing the participation of transgender women in female competition on Thursday after a meeting that is also expected to decide to lift the ban imposed on Russia for mass doping.
World Athletics set to tighten transgender rules, lift Russia doping ban
World Athletics is likely to tighten rules around the participation of transgender women in female competition in a charged meeting of its decision-making body on Thursday that should also see the doping ban on Russia lifted.
World Athletics puts forward transgender proposals
World Athletics has proposed continuing to allow transgender women to compete in the female category of international events, taking a different approach from other sports that have banned transgender athletes from elite female competition.
Amusan ‘short of words’ after World Athlete of the Year nomination
Tobi Amusan is the world record holder in the women’s 100m hurdles.
Tobi Amusan’s 100m hurdles world record officially ratified by World Athletics
Gold medallist Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s 100m hurdles during the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on July 24, 2022. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
Semenya welcome at world champs, says World Athletics chief Coe
Caster Semenya, who will make her first appearance in a world championships in five years when she competes in the women's 5 000m in Eugene, has every right to be there, World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said on Tuesday.