Imane Khelif
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Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Imane Khelif [إيمان خليف]
Birthplace Aïn Sidi Ali, Laghouat, Algeria
Birth Date May 2, 1999
Ethnicity North African
Overview Maghrebi Arab
Nationality Algerian
Career Professional boxer
Color Season Dark Autumn
Notes and Motifs
Won the gold medal in the women's 66 kg (welterweight) boxing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Following Khelif's victory over Italy's Angela Carini during the 2024 Olympic Games, misinformation surfaced on social media about her gender and eligibility to compete
False claims that Khelif is male were fueled by Khelif's disqualification from the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championships, organised by the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA) after she allegedly failed unspecified gender eligibility tests
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its Paris Boxing Unit stated Khelif was eligible to compete in the Olympics and criticized the IBA's previous disqualification as "sudden and arbitrary" and taken "without any due process"
Born female, and no medical evidence that she has XY chromosomes or elevated levels of testosterone has been published
Her father initially did not allow her to participate in the sport because "he did not approve of boxing for girls"
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