Athletics:Caster Semenya looks sure to keep her World Championships 800 metres gold medal, regardless of the outcome of her gender tests. With the results expected in the next fortnight, the IAAF has said it is unlikely the South African would be stripped of her gold medal as her case is not drug-related.
Communications director Nick Davies said today: "This is a medical issue and not a doping issue where she was deliberately cheating.
"These tests do not suggest any suspicion of deliberate misconduct but seek to assess the possibility of a potential medical condition which would give Semenya an unfair advantage over her competitors.
"There is no automatic disqualification of results in a case like this."
The world governing body requested the South African undergo the medical evaluation after her remarkable improvements in performances in the weeks leading up to her victory in Berlin.
The 18-year-old shot into the spotlight when, a few weeks before the championships, she won the African junior title in a world leading time for the year of one minute 56.72 seconds in Bambous, Mauritius.
She then stormed to the 800m title in Berlin over two seconds ahead of defending champion Janeth Jepkosgei of Kenya.
She has since undergone tests in Berlin involving an endocrinologist, a gynaecologist and a psychologist.