{"id":9932,"date":"2012-04-14T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/athletics-semenya-yet-to-reach-olympic-qualifying-mark\/"},"modified":"2012-04-14T16:13:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T14:13:57","slug":"athletics-semenya-yet-to-reach-olympic-qualifying-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/athletics-semenya-yet-to-reach-olympic-qualifying-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics-Semenya yet to reach Olympic qualifying mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, April 14<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Caster<br \/>\nSemenya, the former womens&#8217; 800 metres world champion, has still<br \/>\nnot secured a place in South Africa&#8217;s Olympic team despite<br \/>\nvictory at the national championships on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Semenya won the 800m final in a time of two minutes 02.68<br \/>\nseconds, well short of the Olympic A qualification mark of<br \/>\n1:59.90 needed to compete in the London Games later this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She until June 30 to achieve the qualifying standard.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Semenya made her mark on world athletics when she clinched<br \/>\nthe 800m world title in Berlin in August 2009 before an enforced<br \/>\nbreak of almost a year following controversial gender tests.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She lost her world title last year when she finished second<br \/>\nat the world championships in Daegu, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Semenya, running just her second two-lap<br \/>\nrace under the tutelage of her new coach Maria Mutola, led from<br \/>\nthe front in hot and breezy conditions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She finished comfortably ahead of the second-placed athlete<br \/>\nMandie Brandt, who ran 2:04.36.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Semenya did manage to improve on her season&#8217;s best time of<br \/>\n2:03.60 but she was well short of her personal best of 1:55.45.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jason Humphries in Durban; editing by Martyn<br \/>\nHerman)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, April 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Caster Semenya, the former womens&#8217; 800 metres world champion, has still not secured a place in South Africa&#8217;s Olympic team despite victory at the national championships on Saturday. Semenya won the 800m final in a time of two minutes 02.68 seconds, well short of the Olympic A [&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":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","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\/9932","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=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}