Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif each set to overlook boxing’s world championships amid ongoing gender row.
Revealed On 2 Sep 2025
Taiwanese Olympic boxing gold medallist Lin Yu-ting is not going to compete on the world championships beginning this week, regardless of reportedly submitting her gender take a look at outcomes.
Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif had been on the centre of a serious gender dispute on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place they received titles in separate weight courses.
World Boxing stated final month that ladies desirous to compete on the championships in Liverpool on September 4-14 must endure necessary gender testing below its new coverage.
The 29-year-old Lin had agreed to endure the testing, her coach Tseng Tzu-chiang stated on the time.
“She has not thought of withdrawing from the competitors due to the brand new gender assessments. We’ll submit all of the related paperwork requested by the organisers, as a part of regular procedures,” Tseng stated.
Taiwan’s boxing affiliation stated it submitted the outcomes to World Boxing and had not obtained a response, the semi-official Central Information Company reported late Monday.
“We can’t permit the athlete to journey to the UK with none assure,” the affiliation was quoted as saying.
The affiliation instructed the information company AFP in a message on Tuesday that Lin “is not going to attend the world championships in Liverpool”, however didn’t give a purpose or reply to AFP’s different questions.
Lin’s coach Tseng didn’t reply to cellphone calls or messages.
AFP has contacted World Boxing for remark.
Beneath its coverage, fighters greater than 18 years outdated who need to take part in a World Boxing-sanctioned competitors must take a PCR, or polymerase chain response genetic take a look at.
Lin and Khelif had been excluded from the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation’s (IBA) 2023 world championships after the IBA stated they’d failed eligibility assessments.
Nonetheless, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed them each to compete in Paris, saying they’d been victims of “a sudden and arbitrary resolution by the IBA”. Each went on to triumph.
Khelif has turned to sport’s prime courtroom, CAS, to problem World Boxing’s gender testing.
At current, neither boxer is ready to compete in Liverpool.
Khelif and Lin had been subjected to assaults on social media, rumours about their organic intercourse and disinformation through the Paris Video games.
The IOC leapt to their defence, saying they had been born and raised as ladies, and have passports testifying to that.
