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Fit Caster heads to Europe

2011-04-06 13:27
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Caster Semenya (AP)

Johannesburg - Caster Semenya's coach says the fit-again 800m world champion is looking to run under two minutes at this weekend's South African Championships.

Michael Seme says the 20-year-old Semenya wants to better her quickest time this year of 2:01.77 at the national championships in Durban "and then she can go to Europe."

Seme adds that Semenya has recovered from the niggling back injury that spoiled the final part of her 2010 season and caused her to miss the Commonwealth Games, saying she was now "100 percent fit."

Semenya hopes to defend her title at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, this summer - two years after her victory in Berlin led to an 11-month gender dispute.

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