Overview

• The ECHR Grand Chamber found that Swiss courts failed to grant Semenya proper procedural safeguards in her appeal against hyperandrogenism rules
• The court ordered Switzerland to pay the athlete €80,000 to cover her legal costs
• World Athletics’ 2018 regulation requiring DSD athletes to lower testosterone below 2.5 nmol/L remains fully in effect
• Semenya is now eligible to refile her case before Swiss tribunals or seek a new hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport
• Semenya and her supporters frame the dispute as a fundamental rights battle over due process, while World Athletics insists its rules are necessary and proportionate to protect women’s competition