World Boxing has apologised after Olympic champion Imane Khelif was named in the governing body's announcement of mandatory sex testing.
The governing body released its new policy last week, and singled out the Algerian, saying Khelif will not be allowed to compete in the female category of its competitions until the fighter undergoes the test.
But World Boxing has told BBC Sport its president Boris van der Vorst has since written to the Algerian Boxing Federation to apologise after acknowledging that "the athlete's privacy should have been protected".
Khelif, 26, won women's welterweight gold at the Paris Olympics last year amid a row over gender eligibility.
Khelif, along with Taiwanese fighter Lin Yu-ting, was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships by previous world governing body the International Boxing Association (IBA) for allegedly failing gender eligibility tests.
Khelif was cleared to compete in Paris by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which stripped the IBA of its status as the sport's amateur world governing body in June 2023 over concerns over how it was run.
The IOC said competitors were eligible for the women's division in Paris if their passports said they were female.
