patrick.net

The International Boxing Association president said that some participants “were trying to fool their colleagues”.

Several participants were disqualified from the Women’s World Boxing Championship after DNA tests rendered them ineligible, Umar Kremlev, president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), wrote on Telegram on Saturday. The competition concluded in New Delhi, India on Sunday.

Kremlev said that IBA executives had met towards the end of the championship to discuss “fairness among athletes and professionalism.” He added that after “a series of DNA-tests” the association “uncovered athletes who were trying to fool their colleagues and pretended to be women.”

Kremlev claimed that the tests “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events.”

Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who won the 2022 African Championships and this year’s Mediterranean Games, was disqualified from the event “due to the failure to meet the IBA eligibility criteria.” Algerian media reported that her hormone test had returned an elevated testosterone level, although Khelif claimed she was the victim of a “conspiracy.”

https://www.rt.com/news/573633-women-boxing-dna-test/