運動競技のs-Semenya to contest 3,000-メーターs at Prefontaine Classic
May 20 (Reuters) - Caster Semenya will compete in the 3,000 メーターs at the Diamond League's Prefontaine Classic in Stanford, California on June 30, a distance she can race without 減ずるing her testosterone levels.
Semenya, who has won two Olympic golds over 800 メーターs, has been 毅然とした that she will not take 医薬 to lower her testosterone levels to 従う with new International 協会s of 運動競技のs (IAAF) 支配するs.
The race will be her first since the new 支配するs went into 影響.
Under the new 規則s, 女性（の） 競技者s with high natural levels of testosterone wishing to compete in events from 400m to a mile must medically 限界 that level to under 5 nmol/L, 二塁打 the normal 女性（の） 範囲 of below 2 nmol/L.
Barring an 控訴，上告, Semenya can no longer compete in her specialist event after she lost her 控訴，上告 against the new 支配するs, with the 法廷，裁判所 of 仲裁 for Sport (CAS) 明言する／公表するing that the 規則s were necessary to 確実にする fair 競争.
Semenya will form part of a formidable field at the Prefontaine Classic that 含むs world 5,000-メーターs 支持する／優勝者 Hellen Obiri, 2016 world indoor 1,500-メーターs 支持する／優勝者 Sifan Hassan, and 2018 world indoor 1,500 and 3,000-メーターs 支持する／優勝者 Genzebe Dibaba.
"It was a request from Caster Semenya's スパイ／執行官 asking if she could run a 3,000," 会合，会う director Tom Jordan told Reuters. "Of course we said yes."
The event is sponsored by Nike, who have Semenya in their stable of 競技者s.
Semenya became South African 国家の 支持する／優勝者 in the 5,000 メーターs in April, but is some way off the 主要な 走者s in the world over that distance.
The flat 3,000 メーターs is not contested at the オリンピック, but a steeplechase over the distance is on the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of events.
Semenya has a personal best of 9:36.29 in the flat 3,000 メーターs, the slowest of the 走者s in the Prefontaine Classic, with Dibaba (8:16.60) the quickest.
The South African´s last race over 800 メーターs was in the Diamond League in Doha on May 3, when she 巡航するd to victory in 1:54.98, nearly three seconds ahead of Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba.
"I'm a crazy 競技者, I switch events like hell but, yeah, 800 メーターs is my calling, I believe in it, and that's what I want to do," she said after winning in Doha.
"I will switch races when I want to -- no man can tell me what to do. I'm here for a 目的, if I want to switch events I switch them, but if someone wants me to switch them, that's their own problem, not 地雷.
"I'm a 力／強力にする 競技者, I can run from 100 メーターs to 5 km, so I can run any race I want."
The Prefontaine Classic is 存在 行う／開催する／段階d in Stanford, California this year while a new stadium is built in Eugene, Oregon for the 2021 world 選手権s. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Nick Said; 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by 遺伝子 Cherry, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
