JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African track official had her lifetime ban lifted for her role in Caster Semenya’s gender tests.
Former Athletics South Africa board member Laraine Lane’s ban was set aside Thursday by the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
She brought her case against the South African Sports Confederation and national Olympic committee, which banned her and others on the board in November 2009.
A psychologist, Lane says she was asked in 2009 to counsel then-teenage Semenya through contentious gender tests ahead of world championships. After winning the 800-meter world title in August 2009, Semenya was sidelined for almost a year while track and field’s governing body decided whether to allow her to compete.
Lane says she was “summarily suspended and banned” without reason. SASCOC says it will seek appeal.
