Lin Yu-Ting was among the fighters caught in a gender eligibility controversy. Here’s what to know about the Taiwanese Olympic boxer.
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was thrust into the middle of a gender eligibility controversy before the 2024 Paris Olympics and a fight against Uzbekistan fighter Sitora Turdibekova.
Lin has not been in a firestorm like Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is now, but Lin was also deemed to have male chromosomes in the same 2023 Women’s World Championships tournament in which Khelif competed. Both fighters were disqualified from the tournament.
Here’s what to know about Lin and the issue.Vitals
Lin is a 28-year-old boxer from Taipei County, Taiwan, and has been competing in female boxing matches since middle school, according to Taiwan News.
Lin reportedly started to turn a hobby into a career to « protect her mother from domestic abuse. »
Lin has competed in the women’s bantamweight, women’s flyweight and women’s featherweight divisions.Boxing career
Lin has been competing at the amateur championship level since 2017. Lin won a gold medal in the 2017 Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City against Vietnam’s Le Thi Bang in the bantamweight division. Lin was 21 at the time.
Lin then moved to the AIBA World Championships in 2018 and won a bantamweight gold. Lin also won gold in the 2019 Asian Championships, the 2022 Asian Games and the 2022 World Championships.
Lin fought in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were held in 2021. Lin lost to the Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio in the Round of 16.
But it’s the 2023 World Championships where the controversy surrounding Lin and Khelif begins.Gender controversy
Lin was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships and had a bronze medal stripped away over gender eligibility issues.
