Imane Khelif

Imane Khelif, born on 2 May 1999, is an Algerian professional boxer who won the women's welterweight gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. She made her international debut at the 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, reached the quarterfinals of the women's lightweight event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and took silver at the 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships. She was the first female boxer to represent Algeria at the Olympics and became the country's first female boxing gold medalist. Her career was marked by controversy over eligibility testing after a 2023 disqualification by the International Boxing Association, which the International Olympic Committee criticised as sudden and arbitrary. She has competed exclusively in women's events, and the IOC cleared her to compete in Paris.