Caster Semenya was dominant yet again and smashed Zola Budd's long-standing South African 1 500 metres record at the Commonwealth Game...
Caster Semenya was dominant yet again and smashed Zola
Budd's long-standing South African 1 500 metres record at the Commonwealth
Games on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old's victory by more than two seconds sliced
1.1sec off Budd's 1984 South African record and earned Semenya her first
Commonwealth medal, to go with her swathe of Olympic and world titles over
800m.
Semenya made her move on the last lap, overtaking Kenya's
Beatrice Chepkoech on the final bend and accelerating away to win in 4min
0.71sec.
It was a victorious moment for Semenya, who called for
assistance for an exhausted rival lying on the track before setting off for a
lap of honour wrapped in the national flag.
"I want everyone to know that South African athletes
are here to stay. I'm proud to be a South African. We are a great nation and we
want to display that to the world," she said.
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