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Khelif, 25, beat China’s Yang Liu in the women’s welterweight finals at Roland-Garros Stadium, capping a turbulent experience at the Olympics. "I’m very happy.
The participation of Lin and Khelif in Olympic women’s boxing has sparked global outrage in recent days after reports resurfaced that the pair failed to meet gender eligibility tests at the ...
Lin Yu-ting, boxer embroiled in gender controversy, wins Olympic gold medal in 57kg women’s final. Dan Wetzel. August 10, 2024 at 12:53 PM.
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
Bavington was named women's boxer of the year at the 2022 Midlands Area Board of Control Awards. [9] She lost by split decision to Canada's Kandi Wyatt in a contest for the vacant WBA female welterweight Intercontinental title in Wolverhampton on 10 March 2023 [10] and was subsequently stripped of her European titie. [11]
On 9 August 2024, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defeated Yang Liu of China in the final to win an Olympic gold medal. [37] [38] Khelif therefore became Algeria's first female gold medalist in boxing, as well as the country's first boxer of any gender to win a medal since Mohamed Allalou in 2000 [39] and the first to win a gold medal since Hocine Soltani in 1996.
PARIS — Lin Yu-ting, one of two women boxers embroiled in a gender controversy at the Summer Olympics, won her quarterfinal bout in the 57kg division and is guaranteed a medal.
Gabriela Fundora (born March 29, 2002) is an American professional boxer, who has held the undisputed flyweight title since November 2024, having held the IBF title since October 2023 and the WBA, WBC and WBO titles since November 2024. At 22 years old, she became the youngest ever undisputed boxing world champion across divisions and gender in ...