World Athletics has banned transgender women from competing in elite female competitions if they have gone through male puberty, the sport's governing body said on Thursday.
The council also voted to tighten restrictions on athletes with Differences in Sex Development , cutting the maximum amount of plasma testosterone for athletes in half, to 2.5 nanomoles per liter from five.
Yet it said on Thursday that it became apparent there was little support within the sport for that proposal. The tighter rules will impact DSD athletes such as two-times Olympic 800 metre champion Caster Semenya, Christine Mboma, the 2020 Olympic silver medallist in the 200m, and Francine Niyonsaba, who finished runner-up to Semenya in the 800 at the 2016 Olympics.
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