South African athlete Caster Semenya says she is looking forward to competing again.
"I am thrilled to enter the global athletics arena once again and look forward to competing with all the disputes behind me," she said in a statement issued through her lawyers, Dewey & LeBoeuf.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) cleared Semenya, 19, to compete as a woman on Tuesday after reviewing the results of gender-verification tests.
"The process initiated in 2009 in the case of Caster Semenya has now been completed," the IAAF said in a statement. "The IAAF accepts the conclusion of a panel of medical experts that she can compete with immediate effect.
"The medical details of the case remain confidential and the IAAF will make no further comment on the matter."
Semenya has not run since winning the 800 metres world championship in Berlin in August. Test results leaked afterwards suggested that she was a hermaphrodite.
Dewey & LeBoeuf managing partner Greg Nott said that her return to competition is the result of a "landmark settlement" with the IAAF.
