Taiwan’s Lin Secures Medal After Beating Bulgaria’s Staneva Amid Boxing Gender Row

Lin Yu-ting will face Turkey’s Esra Yildiz Kahraman on Aug. 7—a fight that will decide which boxer will advance to the gold medal bout.

Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting reacts after beating Bulgaria's Svetlana Kamenova Staneva in a quarter-final boxing match during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the North Paris Arena in Villepinte, France, on Aug. 4, 2024. Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images

Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting has become the second boxer engulfed in gender controversy to be guaranteed a medal in the Paris Olympics after winning a quarterfinal match on Aug. 4.

The 28-year-old athlete defeated Svetlana Staneva, 34, of Team Bulgaria in the women’s 57-kilogram division in a unanimous 5–0 point decision.