Algerian boxer Imane Khelif gained the gold medal within the ladies’s 66-kilogram division on the 2024 Paris Olympics Friday, defeating the reigning welterweight world champion, Yang Liu of China.
Khelif was awarded the highest spot on the rostrum after profitable the three-round bout by unanimous resolution.
Imane Khelif of Algeria, left, fights Yang Liu of China within the ladies's gold medal match on the 2024 Paris Video games. (Sebastian Kahnert/image alliance by way of Getty Photographs)
Khelif took the primary spherical on all 5 playing cards, showing to win the judges over within the ultimate moments with a mix of punches. Regardless of a sluggish begin from both boxers within the first spherical, Khelif got here out swinging and had Yang on the ropes nearly instantly.
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Yang responded with the identical power, however Khelif took the second spherical in a similar way. A shot on the gold medal appeared to slide away from Yang within the third, and Khelif ultimately secured a gold medal for Algeria.
Khelif has confronted scrutiny over a gender eligibility controversy that started with a disqualification on the 2023 Worldwide Boxing Affiliation World Championships, the identical event the place Yang was topped champion.
Algeria's Imane Khelif, left, and China's Yang Liu compete within the ladies's 66-kilogram ultimate boxing match in the course of the 2024 Olympic Video games Aug. 9, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
The IBA’s president mentioned on the time that Khelif and Taiwanese Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting, who may even struggle in a gold medal match on Saturday, have been disqualified after they have been discovered to have "XY chromosomes."
However Khelif and the Worldwide Olympic Committee have maintained that the Algerian Olympian is eligible to compete.
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The IOC put out a press release Aug. 1 clarifying that every one boxers competing within the ladies’s occasions "adjust to the competitors’s eligibility and entry laws, in addition to all relevant medical laws set by the Paris 2024 Boxing Unit (PBU).
"As with earlier Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes are based mostly on their passport," the assertion continued.
Khelif didn't lose a spherical on any scorecards in Paris, in line with The Related Press.
Gold medalist Imane Khelif of Algeria poses on the rostrum in the course of the medal ceremony for the ladies's 66-kilogram ultimate in the course of the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris Aug. 9, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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After defeating Italy’s Angela Carin in simply 46 seconds, Khelif defeated Hungarian Luca Anna Hamori by way of unanimous resolution within the quarterfinals and did the identical towards Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng Tuesday to advance to the gold medal match.
Khelif’s gold medal is Algeria’s first in ladies’s boxing.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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