Olympic 800m gold medallist Caster Semenya has received a human rights courtroom enchantment over the foundations governing testosterone in athletics competitions.

The European Court of Human Rights dominated the double Olympic champion had been discriminated towards.

The determination may power sport's highest courtroom to re-examine the laws that power Semenya and different feminine athletes to artificially scale back naturally excessive testosterone ranges with a view to compete at prime competitions such because the Olympics and world championships.

The courtroom additionally dominated the runner was not allowed an "effective remedy" when the Court of Arbitration for Sport and Switzerland's supreme courtroom denied her two earlier appeals towards the foundations.