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The 26-year-old South African won gold in the shorter distance
and a surprise bronze in the 1500m at the World Championship in
London in August.
"I will again be going for the double but I need to improve on
my tactics (for the 1500m)," she told reporters.
"The 1500m is a race that excites me. I look forward to racing
it."
Her coach Jean Verster said the 800m world record would be a
priority for Semenya after the April Games at the Gold Coast in
Australia.
"We will be gunning for that in the next season. I think she can
probably break it already but we've got to find the right race
because you don't want to put all your cards on the table and
then get beaten," he told South Africa's Independent Newspapers.
Semenya won the 800m in London in one minute 55.16 seconds, the
fastest time in the event since 2008.
"I believe a time of 1:52 is possible. It is just a matter of
getting in the right race with the right pacemaker," said
Verster.
The world record of 1:53.28 is now almost 35 years old and was
set by Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova in Munich in July 1983.
(Reporting by Mark Gleeson; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly;
mark.gleeson@thomsonreuters.com; +27828257807; Reuters
Messaging: Reuters Messaging:
mark.gleeson.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)
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