Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting took bronze at the Asian Boxing Elite Championships on Monday in her first competition since a gender eligibility dispute overshadowed her Olympic gold medal-winning performance at the 2024 Paris Games.
Lin opted out of the world championships last year after the World Boxing Federation announced that female boxers would have to undergo a sex test as part of a new eligibility policy.
The policy was introduced a year after Lin and Algerian Imane Khelif both won gold in Paris amid gender controversy.
Last month, Lin was cleared to compete in the women’s division by World Boxing following an appeal from the Chinese Taipei federation, paving the way for her return to the Asian Championships in Mongolia.
The 30-year-old, who moved up to the 60kg category after winning an Olympic gold medal at 57kg, lost to North Korea’s Won Un-gyong in the semi-finals on Monday to finish with the bronze medal.
“After all, this is our first time competing in the 60kg category after the Olympics,” Lin’s coach Tseng Tzu-chiang told the Chinese Taipei Central News Agency.
