Nagoya (Japan) (AFP) – Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, at the center of a controversy over her gender at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, without trembling won the gold medal at the Asian Games on Friday in Nagoya (Japan).

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 11:44

At 30 years old, and while she had declared to AFP before the start of these Continental Games that she had almost ended her career after the controversy which accompanied her Olympic title two years ago, Lin largely dominated Friday in the final of the 60 kg category the Chinese Yang Chengyu (5-0).

She explained that she had finally decided to continue her career in the rings to prove her legitimacy.

So, this second title at the Asian Games after the one won in 2023 in Hangzhou in the 57 kg category, she welcomed it “like a ray of sunshine that finally breaks through”.

Much larger than her Chinese opponent, she took advantage of her reach to control the entire fight and celebrated her victory with restraint.

“I'm happy to have gotten out of it,” she commented, emphasizing the extent to which this new title had “monumental” importance for her.

The Taiwanese refused to say whether she plans to defend her Olympic title in Los Angeles in 2028.

During the 2024 Olympics, Lin and the Algerian Imane Khelif found themselves at the heart of a lively controversy, in which many personalities intervened, including Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the writer J.K. Rowling.

The controversy had its origins in the exclusion of the two boxers from the World Championships in New Delhi in March 2023. The former international boxing federation (IBA) had argued that they had failed a test intended to establish their gender, without ever specifying the nature of the test.

© 2026 AFP

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