Semenya set to discover test fate

Replay - Semenya wins 800m amid gender test row (UK users only)

Caster Semenya, the athlete at the centre of a gender controversy, is set to be told on 20 November if she is eligible to compete as a woman.

A review of the South African's gender test results by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will determine her future.

Semenya, 18, came to prominence when she won the 800m at the World Championships in Berlin in August.

She could be suspended, told to have surgery or cleared to run as a woman.

BBC Sport understands the tests are likely to reveal Semenya has an intersex status.

Semenya is currently training at the University of Pretoria and admitted she has struggled to cope with her fame.

I want to give myself new challenges, I want to get better Caster Semenya

"It's not so easy," she told the Guardian. "The university is OK but there are not many other places I can go.

"People want to stare at me now. They want to touch me. I'm supposed to be famous but I don't think I like it so much."

Semenya insisted that she is unchanged by the attention the controversy has placed upon her.

She added: "What is the point of me changing? If I became another person it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same."

And Semenya revealed she is looking forward to next year, even though IAAF's decision has yet to be announced.

"Next year is going to be busy," she stated. "I want to win the African Juniors again. I'll still be a junior next year so why not?

"And then there's the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games. I even want to run cross-country. I want to give myself new challenges, I want to get better."

Semenya burst on to the world scene when she ran one minute, 56.72 seconds for the 800m in July, smashing her previous personal best by more than seven seconds.

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She also broke Zola Budd's long-standing South African 800m record before arriving in Berlin as the newly crowned African junior champion.

The teenager then left her rivals trailing in Berlin to win by 2.5 seconds from 2007 champion Janeth Jepkosgei in 1.55.45, the fastest time of the year.

Before the race, it was revealed that the IAAF demanded Semenya take a gender test before the World Championships amid fears she might not be able to run as a woman.

Following the findings of initial tests, the IAAF asked South Africa to withdraw her from their team for Germany but Athletics South Africa (ASA) insisted she should run and has since said it is certain she is female, a claim backed up by her family.

Earlier this month, South Africa's Olympic governing body suspended ASA president Leonard Chuene after he admitted that he lied about whether Semenya had been gender tested before Berlin.

The ASA board and its members have also been suspended pending a disciplinary investigation into the matter.

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