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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif received the gold medal within the girls’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 successful the three-round bout by unanimous determination.
Imane Khelif of Algeria, left, fights Yang Liu of China within the girls’s gold medal match on the 2024 Paris Games. (Sebastian Kahnert/image alliance by way of Getty Images)
Khelif took the primary spherical on all 5 playing cards, showing to win the judges over within the remaining moments with a mix of punches. Despite a sluggish begin from each 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 similarly. 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 International Boxing Association World Championships, the identical event the place Yang was topped champion.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif, left, and China’s Yang Liu compete within the girls’s 66-kilogram remaining boxing match in the course of the 2024 Olympic Games Aug. 9, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP by way of Getty Images)
The IBA’s president stated 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.”
But Khelif and the International 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 each one boxers competing within the girls’s occasions “comply with the competition’s eligibility and entry regulations, as well as all applicable medical regulations 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 statement continued.
Khelif did not lose a round on any scorecards in Paris, according to The Associated Press.
Gold medalist Imane Khelif of Algeria poses on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s 66-kilogram final during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris Aug. 9, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images)
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After defeating Italy’s Angela Carin in just 46 seconds, Khelif defeated Hungarian Luca Anna Hamori via unanimous decision in the quarterfinals and did the same against Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng Tuesday to advance to the gold medal match.
Khelif’s gold medal is Algeria’s first in women’s boxing.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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