The governing body for Olympic-style boxing will require sex testing for all fighters wishing to compete in the women’s division at its world championships next month.

Paris Olympics gold medallist Imane Khelif has refuted the rumours of her retirement, but she will not be taking part in the World Boxing Championships 2025, which has made a sex test mandatory for women’s boxers.

Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting both won gold medals at the 2024 Olympic Games but were at the centre of a gender-eligibility dispute; Khelif has not registered to compete at the World Championships in L

World Boxing, the international boxing federation provisionally recognised by the IOC, announced on Wednesday the introduction of mandatory sex verification testing for all athlete

Nick Ball heads into his clash with Australian Sam Goodman this weekend as Britain’s only current world champion, the Scouser holding the World Boxing Association (WBA) title at featherweight.

The governing body for Olympic-style boxing will require gender testing for all pugilists wishing to compete in the women's division at its world championships next month. World Boxing had already announced its plan to require competitors to undergo a polymerase chain reaction test or an equivalent genetic screening test to determine their sex at birth.

World Boxing has announced mandatory gender tests for men and women wishing to compete in its events, just two weeks before its inaugural World

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