Caster Semenya's gender has been questioned by the IAAF. Photograph: Anja Niedringhaus/AP
It has been reported that the results of a controversial gender test on the South African athlete Caster Semenya have been received by international athletics officials but will only be made public after they have been analysed by experts and Semenya has been informed.
A spokesman for the International Association of Athletics Federations was reported to have said that its urgent efforts to contact Semenya, the women's 800 metres world champion, were being thwarted by South African athletics authorities.
Adding to the confusion, Athletics South Africa has denied the claim, insisting that it has not yet heard from the IAAF.
Semenya's victory at last month's World Championships in Berlin was overshadowed by speculation over her masculine appearance, deep voice and radically improved performance. The IAAF's order of a gender test caused fierce protests in South Africa and complaints that it infringed her human rights.
A South African website, Sport24.co.za, reported Nick Davies, a spokesman for the IAAF in Lausanne, Switzerland, as saying: "We can't afford any mistakes, particularly as we already face threats to be taken to the United Nations Human Rights Council and because it has become a political matter in South Africa."
