Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting, who previously failed a gender test, won the first Paris Olympics boxing match in the women's 57-kilogram division.
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting won a Paris Olympics fight against Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova on Friday handily, 3-0 The judges scored each round for Lin in the dominating performance. Lin’s height and reach proved to be the biggest difference in the match as Turdibekova appeared to just be outmatched. Lin was the No. 1 seed in the 57-kilogram division and had a bye into the round of 16. Turdibekova defeated Marcelat Sakobi Matshu, of Congo, to move into the round against Lin.
Lin will square off against the winner of Ireland’s Michaela Walsh and Bulgaria’s Svetlana Staneva. The boxer had been caught up in a gender controversy before the match. Lin was disqualified from the 2023 Women’s Boxing World Championships, an International Boxing Association-sanctioned event, for failing to meet gender criteria and had a bronze medal stripped away.
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