Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, one of two Olympic boxers known to have male chromosomes, defeated Poland’s Julia Szeremeta on Sunday to win the women’s featherweight gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Yuting dominated the entire bout and won by unanimous decision.
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Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting defeated Poland’s Julia Szeremeta to win the women’s boxing gold medal, marking the second time a biological male has won a women’s boxing gold medal at the Paris Olympics.
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Both Yuting and Algerian fighter Imane Kherif have been thrown into a major controversy in Paris after being excluded from the 2023 women’s world championships after failing gender tests.
According to Russia’s TASS news agency, International Boxing Association (IBA) president Umar Kremlev explained the organisation’s decision to strip Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Kherif of eligibility to compete in the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in 2023. “Based on DNA tests, it became clear that several athletes had tried to deceive their colleagues by posing as women. The tests proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes have been excluded from competition,” Kremlev said. said.
Yet despite the uproar, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stood firm in its support for Khelib and Yuting.
“All athletes competing in the women’s category are complying with eligibility rules,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. said“My passport states I’m a female and that’s exactly what it states.”
Imane Khelif won gold earlier this week, making it the 100th gold medal winner to have been an athlete who failed the IBA’s gender test.
