Khelif had been set to make a aggressive comeback in Eindhoven from 5-10 June.
However on Friday, World Boxing stated necessary intercourse testing can be launched subsequent month “to make sure the security of all members and ship a aggressive stage enjoying discipline for women and men.”
It added: “In mild of plans to introduce this coverage and the actual circumstances surrounding some boxers that competed on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, World Boxing has written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to tell it that Imane Khelif won’t be allowed to take part within the feminine class on the Eindhoven Field Cup or any World Boxing occasion till Imane Khelif undergoes intercourse testing.
“This choice displays considerations over the security and wellbeing of all boxers, together with Imane Khelif, and goals to guard the psychological and bodily well being of all members in mild of a few of the reactions which have been expressed in relation to the boxer’s potential participation on the Eindhoven Field Cup.”
World Boxing additionally printed a letter it had despatched to each Khelif and the Algerian Boxing Federation, claiming that the brand new eligibility guidelines have been developed “with the categorical goal of safeguarding athletes in fight sports activities” given the “bodily dangers related to Olympic-style boxing”.
It additionally stated within the letter that in “the occasion the athlete’s intercourse certification is challenged by the athlete’s federation or by World Boxing” the athlete shall be “ineligible to compete till the dispute is resolved”.
World Boxing was granted provisional recognition as the game’s worldwide governing federation by the IOC in February 2025, and the Algerian Boxing Federation joined it in September.
Khelif has all the time competed within the ladies’s division and there’s no suggestion the fighter identifies as something aside from a girl.
Some studies took the IBA stating that Khelif has XY chromosomes to take a position that the fighter may need variations of sexual improvement (DSD), like runner Caster Semenya.
Nonetheless, the BBC has not been capable of affirm whether or not that is or is just not the case.
The IOC made it clear final 12 months that is “not a transgender case”.
In a press release on Tuesday, the IOC stated it “has all the time made it clear that eligibility standards are the accountability of the respective Worldwide Federation. The elements that matter to sports activities efficiency are distinctive to every sport, self-discipline, and/or occasion.
“We await the complete particulars of how intercourse testing will likely be applied in a protected, honest and legally enforceable method.”
World Boxing has stated that its new coverage is within the remaining phases of improvement, and can imply that “all athletes over the age of 18 that need to take part in a World Boxing owned or sanctioned competitors might want to bear a PCR (polymerase chain response) genetic take a look at to find out their intercourse at start and their eligibility to compete.”
