Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules.

Caster Semenya has won her case in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The Grand Chamber upheld the 2023 decision by the ECHR’s lower chamber that found Caster Semenya was denied a fair and effective hearing by the Swiss Federal Tribunal.

The Grand Chamber of the ECHR, comprising 17 judges, upheld a 2023 ruling by the court’s lower chamber that Semenya was denied a fair and effective hearing by the Swiss Federal Tribunal.