Caster Semenya wins 800m gold medal at World Athletics Championships

Caster Semenya claimed another global title when she won the world 800 metres gold while seemingly barely taking a breath on Sunday, biding her time before surging clear to record one minute 55.16 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year.

Semenya bode her time well before surging clear to record 1:55.16, the fastest time in the world this year.

South Africa's Semenya, who won bronze in the unfamiliar 1,500m on Monday, looked much more at home in her preferred event as she sat on the shoulders of front-runners Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi and in-form American Ajee Wilson before driving clear off the final bend.

Semenya, 26, is the 2016 Olympic and 2009 world champion and is poised to inherit two more golds after Russian doper Mariya Savinova-Farnosova was stripped of her 2012 Olympic and 2011 world titles.

Niyonsaba, who took silver behind her in Rio, was second again in 1:55.92 and Wilson claimed bronze in 1:56.65.