Another boxer who was previously banned from a women’s competition over gender concerns has won a match against a female opponent at the 2024 Olympic games.
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu‑ting beat Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova in the women’s 57-kilogram division, winning all three rounds and advancing to the quarterfinals.
Yu‑ting and another Olympic boxer, Imane Khelif of Algeria, were both disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi last year after their chromosome tests came back as XY.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have defended allowing both boxers to compete in the Olympic games.
“As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport,” the IOC said in a statement.
Yu-ting, 28, was reportedly registered as a female at birth, New Taipei City Councilor Cho Kuan-ting said.
