Lin Cleared For Boxing Return After Sex Test

Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting has been cleared to fight in the women’s category by World Boxing after undergoing the governing body’s new sex test.

The 30-year-old won women’s featherweight gold for Chinese Taipei at the 2024 Olympics in Paris but, alongside Algeria’s welterweight champion Imane Khelif, became embroiled in an eligibility row.

Both Lin and Khelif had been disqualified from the 2023 World Championships by previous world governing body the International Boxing Association (IBA), which said they had “failed to meet the eligibility criteria for participating in women’s competition”.

The IBA was later stripped of its status by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over integrity and governance issues, and the IOC ran boxing competitions at the Paris Games.

Since the 2024 Olympics, World Boxing has taken over the governance of the sport at Olympic level from the IBA and introduced a new eligibility policy in August 2025 that includes mandatory sex testing.

World Boxing has confirmed that Lin, who has missed a number of competitions since the policy was introduced, would now be eligible to compete at its events.