French Women Out Of World Championships After Missing Gender Test Deadline

The French women's squad person been barred from nan Boxing World Championships successful Liverpool because they missed nan deadline for sharing gender trial results.

World Boxing, nan world governing assemblage for amateur boxing, said past period that women wanting to compete successful nan event, which started connected Thursday, would person to acquisition mandatory familial activity testing nether its caller policy.

Those tests are banned successful France truthful nan French boxing federation (FFBoxe) sent nan five-member squad to a laboratory successful Leeds connected Monday to return them.

However, nan French federation said connected Thursday that nan laboratory would beryllium incapable to supply nan results successful clip for its fighters to beryllium eligible for nan championships, which return spot from 4-14 September successful northbound westbound England.

"It is pinch stupefaction and indignation that nan French squad learned connected Wednesday evening nan French women's boxing squad would not beryllium capable to compete successful nan first World Championships organised by World Boxing," it said.

"Despite guarantees fixed to america by World Boxing, nan laboratory which they recommended to america was not up to nan task of delivering nan results connected time.

"As a consequence our athletes arsenic good arsenic those from different countries person been caught successful this trap and excluded."

BBC Sport has been told that France is not nan only federation impacted, while World Boxing said that nan responsibility lies pinch nan boxing federations.

"Since World Boxing first announced its volition to present mandatory activity testing to find nan chromosomal activity of a antheral aliases female astatine birth, nan organisation has made it clear that testing will beryllium nan work of nationalist federations arsenic they person nan closest links and astir entree to their boxers and are champion placed to negociate nan testing process," World Boxing said.

"They besides oversee nan introduction process for boxers truthful cognize which boxers request to beryllium tested and when.

"It is very disappointing for nan boxers that immoderate nationalist federations person not been capable to complete this process successful time, which intends that immoderate athletes person not made it done nan sports introduction process for nan World Boxing Championships."

Under World Boxing's rules "all athletes complete nan property of 18" that wish to participate successful competitions it owns aliases sanctions "need to acquisition a PCR (polymerase concatenation reaction) familial trial to find their activity astatine commencement and their eligibility to compete".

Last week, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif filed an appeal to nan Court of Arbitration for Sport to situation World Boxing's preamble of nan familial activity test.

Khelif, on pinch Taiwanese combatant Lin Yu-ting, was disqualified from nan 2023 World Championships by erstwhile world governing assemblage nan International Boxing Association (IBA) for allegedly failing gender eligibility tests.

The brace later made headlines astatine nan 2024 Paris Olympics wherever they won golden medals aft nan International Olympic Committee (IOC) permitted them to compete.

The IOC said competitors were eligible for nan women's section successful Paris if their passports said they were female and made it clear past twelvemonth this is "not a transgender case".

Boxing has undergone a awesome restructure successful caller years aft nan IBA was stripped of its powers for failing to instrumentality reforms.

The IOC oversaw governance of boxing astatine nan Paris Olympics earlier World Boxing was granted provisional nickname arsenic nan sport's world governing federation by nan IOC successful February 2025.