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Imane Khelif: Olympic gold medallist appeals to sport’s highest court docket over genetic intercourse testing

By Editorial Board Published September 1, 2025 3 Min Read
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Imane Khelif: Olympic gold medallist appeals to sport’s highest court docket over genetic intercourse testing

Olympic gold medallist Imane Khelif has appealed to sport’s highest court docket over World Boxing’s choice to bar her from its occasions with out a preliminary genetic intercourse take a look at.

The attraction seeks to overturn the ruling and permit the Algerian feminine boxer to compete on the 2025 World Boxing Championships between 4 and 14 September with out having the take a look at, the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) stated in an announcement.

It added {that a} request to droop World Boxing’s choice to bar Khelif till the case is heard was dismissed on Monday.

“The parties are currently exchanging written submissions and, with their agreement, a hearing will be scheduled,” CAS stated.

Khelif filed her attraction towards World Boxing’s choice to dam her from any of their occasions till she has undergone genetic intercourse testing on 5 August, the court docket added.

The 26-year-old received Olympic ladies’s welterweight gold in Paris final summer season having been cleared to compete by the Worldwide Olympic Committee.

This was regardless of the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation having banned her from the earlier 12 months’s World Championships after saying intercourse chromosome exams had dominated her ineligible.

Khelif was capable of compete within the ladies’s class in Paris after the Worldwide Olympic Committee stripped the IBA of its standing as the game’s governing physique in 2023 and took management of organising boxing in Paris.

After her gold medal victory, Khelif stated: “I’m totally certified to participate on this competitors – I’m a lady.

“I was born a woman, I’ve lived as a woman and I’ve competed as a woman. There’s no doubt that there are enemies of success, and that gives my success a special taste because of these attacks.”

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Imane Khelif celebrates profitable gold on the Paris Olympics. Pic: AP

World Boxing, which can oversee the game on the 2028 Olympics, launched necessary intercourse testing for all boxers in its competitions in Could, including that Khelif wouldn’t be allowed to compete till she underwent such a take a look at.

World Boxing president Boris van der Vorst later apologised over Khelif being named within the announcement, saying her privateness ought to have been protected.

Khelif stated in March that she’s going to defend her title on the 2028 Olympics.

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