Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting gained a gold medal within the 57-kilogram ladies’s division on Saturday over Polish opponent Julia Szeremeta on the Paris Olympics.
Lin defeated Szeremeta through unanimous decision. Lin gained every match on the Olympics through unanimous resolution and confronted no actual problem in the course of the competitions.
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Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting reacts after beating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta within the ladies’s 57kg last boxing match in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 10, 2024. (MOHD RASFAN/AFP through Getty Photographs)
It was the primary boxing medal for Taiwan, however it has not come with out controversy.
Lin was thrust right into a gender eligibility controversy earlier than the official begin of the Paris Olympics. Lin was disqualified from the 2023 Worldwide Boxing Affiliation Girls’s World Championships after testing optimistic for “XY chromosomes.”
The IBA, moreover, has stated that Lin had an unfair benefit in opposition to feminine opponents.
Lin Yu Ting of Group Chinese language Taipei is congratulated on her victory by Julia Szeremeta of Group Poland after the Boxing Girls’s 57kg Last match on day fifteen of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Roland Garros on August 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (Richard Pelham/Getty Photographs)
Nevertheless, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) defended Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif amid the controversy. The IOC has maintained that each Lin and Khelif are ladies and have been eligible to compete within the Olympics.
Khelif additionally won a gold medal in boxing.
For Szeremeta, it’s her first medal of any type, whether or not it was on the Olympic stage or one other worldwide competitors. She was unseeded coming into the Olympic match and pulled off a number of unlikely victories for the win.
Lin Yu-ting reacts after beating Poland’s Julia Szeremeta (Blue) within the ladies’s 57kg last boxing match in the course of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Roland-Garros Stadium, in Paris on August 10, 2024. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP through Getty Photographs)
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Szeremeta defeated Venezuela’s Omailyn Alcala, Australia’s Tina Rahimi, Puerto Rico’s Ashleyann Lozada and Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio to earn the silver.
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