On 1. May 2019 the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced its decision to uphold IAAFs regulations regarding testosterone levels among women athletes. At the centre of the trial, and the surrounding media debate was Caster Semenya – South African middle-distance runner from South Africa, who has spent the last 10 years fighting for her right to compete at the highest international level of athletics. In this presentation I will focus on the debate about so-called “gender verification” in sport and explore the ways in which understandings and assessments of sex/gender are fundamentally racialised, in a way that privileges the white female body. The limits for inclusion of women in sport are expressed and maintained through the figure of the “average woman”. This average woman is a figure that symbolises what is considered normal, and she is the basis of comparison in scientific assessments of sportswomens sex/gender. The figure of the “average woman” is based on the idea of a binary gender system, but also illustrates how this system in itself is a racialised structure. The binary sex/gender system draws on an idea of sex/gender dimorphism and essential biological differences where the boundaries, through “white science”, have historically been drawn along racial lines. In identifying and problematising the “average woman” as a figurative yardstick for womanhood in sport, this presentation raises questions about the anthropological gaze; how does prolympic sport enable the persistant colonial gaze, and what can anthropologies of sex/gender contribute to destabilising this gaze? The presentation asks what sporting womanhood beyond the white gaze might “look” like.