Asian Games 2026: Taiwan’s gender-row boxer Lin Yu-ting wins gold medal

Lin bags her 2nd Asian Games golden medal, 3 years connected from her occurrence successful Hangzhou successful the 57kg class.

Taiwan boxer Lin Yu-ting, the Olympic champion who recovered herself embroiled successful a major sex row astatine Paris 2024, has won golden astatine the Asian Games.

Lin bushed China’s Yang Chengyu 5-0 connected Friday successful the women’s 60kg (132lb) last successful Nishio, Japan, giving her a 2nd Asian Games golden aft winning successful the 57kg (126lb) people successful Hangzhou, China, 3 years ago.

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The 30-year-old was backed by a tiny pouch of vocal Taiwan supporters successful the Nishio Gymnasium successful Nishio, southeast of Nagoya.

Towering implicit her opponent, Lin utilized her superior scope to instrumentality power of the bout and had a wide vantage heading into the 3rd and last round.

She held disconnected a precocious battle from Yang to instrumentality gold, celebrating with the minimum of fuss.

Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting is declared the victor of the golden medal implicit China’s Yang Chengyu successful Nishio, Japan [Andrew Boyers/Reuters]

Lin told the AFP quality bureau earlier the Games that she had considered retiring aft the Paris Olympics but wanted to transportation connected warring successful portion to defy those who questioned her eligibility.

Lin and Imane Khelif of Algeria were disqualified from the 2023 satellite championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA) aft the organisation said they failed unspecified sex eligibility tests.

However, the International Olympic Committee allowed them to vie successful Paris, saying they were victims of “a abrupt and arbitrary decision” by the wide discredited IBA. Both went connected to triumph gold.