{"id":21211,"date":"2013-07-18T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/semenya-wins-after-track-drought\/"},"modified":"2013-07-18T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T09:56:22","slug":"semenya-wins-after-track-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/semenya-wins-after-track-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Semenya wins after track drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/semenya-hits-the-track-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caster Semenya<\/a>\u00a0has won her first race after an injury layoff on Wednesday night, but she fell short in her attempt to qualify for next month\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/world-number-one-leads-uj-at-varsity-athletics\/\" target=\"_blank\">IAAF World Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=9524\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9524 \" alt=\"Caster Semenya. Photo: Friedemann Vogel \/ Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/25b73_147947456_10.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caster Semenya. Photo: Friedemann Vogel \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Semenya clocked a pedestrian 2:06.58 to win the women\u2019s 800m race at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/woods-elbow-in-tact-for-british-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lahti Games<\/a> in Finland \u2013 her first competitive outing since last year\u2019s London Olympic Games, after recovering from a long-term knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Charlene Lipsey of the United States finished second in 2:06.96.<\/p>\n<p>Semenya\u2019s agent, Jukka Harkonen, said earlier this week she had no other races scheduled, but he had previously confirmed she would attempt to meet the 2:00.00 standard for the global spectacle in Moscow, Russia, before the July 29 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Olympic silver medallist is hoping to step on the podium at the biennial world championships for the third time in succession, after winning gold in Berlin in 2009 and silver in Daegu in 2011. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportlive.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/semenya-hits-the-track-again\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/25b73_185826727_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/semenya-hits-the-track-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Semenya hits the track again<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/gaysouthflorida\/2010\/07\/semenya-cleared-to-return-to-track-immediately.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/25b73_20473368_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/miamiherald.typepad.com\/gaysouthflorida\/2010\/07\/semenya-cleared-to-return-to-track-immediately.html\" target=\"_blank\">Semenya cleared to return to track immediately<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/25b73_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caster Semenya\u00a0has won her first race after an injury layoff on Wednesday night, but she fell short in her attempt to qualify for next month\u2019s\u00a0IAAF World Championships. Caster Semenya. Photo: Friedemann Vogel \/ Getty Images Semenya clocked a pedestrian 2:06.58 to win the women\u2019s 800m race at the Lahti Games in Finland \u2013 her first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}