Caster Semenya Biography. Middle-distance runner Mokgadi Caster Semenya, also known as Caster Semenya professionally, is from South Africa. In the women’s 800 meters, she has won two Olympic gold medals as well as three World Championships. Both at the 2016 Olympics and the 2009 World Championships, Semenya won gold. She earned the 1500-meter bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships.
Following Mariya Savinova’s doping disqualification (which resulted in the annulment of her three years of elite results and the removal of both of her World Championship medals, 2011, and 2013, as well as her 2012 Olympic gold medal), Semenya was also given gold medals for the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.
Caster Semenya was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2019.”
Wiki
- Stage Name: Caster Semenya
- Real Name: Mokgadi Caster Semenya
- Occupation: Runner
- Date Of Birth/Age:
- January 7, 1991 (32 Years Old)
- Place of Birth: Pietersburg, South Africa
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: South African
- Marital Status: Violet Raseboya (m. 2017)
- Education: North West University
Caster Semenya Biography
Caster Semenya Age
Caster Semenya was born on January 7, 1991 in a South African village of Ga-Masehlong, which is close to Polokwane (formerly known as Pietersburg). The day after Christmas, on January 2, 2023, she turned 32.
Caster Semenya Net Worth
Caster Semenya’s net worth is cited as being between $1 and $5 million by many media outlets, including Sports Brief and Zalebs.
House
Zalebs claims that Caster and her family reside in a three-bedroom government-built home that was built in 2010. It is said to have a kitchen that is equipped, two dining rooms with tables and chairs, a living room with a flat-screen TV, a sound system, and leather couches.
Wife
Before being married, Caster Semenya and Violet Raseboya dated for some time. In December 2015, the couple celebrated their traditional wedding . Their close friends and family attended their white wedding in Pretoria.
In a statement to Sunday Times, she said, “I just got married a few months ago. With the support I get from my training partners, my wife, coach, fellow South Africans, and the support system at the university, there’s no way you can’t be happy.”
She also explained how they met, “We met a long time ago. I was about 15. We’ve been on and off. We decided to take things seriously two years ago, look up to our future, and get married.”
“Last year, when I told her I was ready to send my family to hers, she was happy, excited, she could not wait. We’ve been good friends. Relationships are all about a good friendship. But also I know marriage is not easy, especially when you are in a long-distance [one] . Like now I’m in Potch, she’s in Pretoria. So it’s not easy.”
They have two children together
Parents
Caster Semenya’s parents are Dorcus and Jacob Semenya.
Medals
In the women’s 800 meters, Caster won two gold medals at the Olympics and three world championships. In 2009 at the World Championships and in 2016 at the Olympics, she won gold. She took home a bronze medal in the 1500 meters at the 2017 World Championships. After Mariya Savinova failed a drug test and her victories at the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics were thrown out, she was given gold medals for both events.
Testosterone condition
Caster is inters*x. Differences in sex development (DSD) were present in her from birth. This indicates that compared to women without this problem, her body generates more testosterone. Caster is therefore not eligible to race in Elite events between 400m and a mile as of 2018. In July 2023, the European Court of Human Rights found that Caster’s fight against Swiss legal limits on testosterone levels for female athletes had been let down by those institutions.
