Olympic champion Imane Khelif will miss the Eindhoven Box Cup in the Netherlands less than a week after World Boxing announced mandatory sex testing for all athletes.

The Algerian boxer, who won gold at the Paris Games last summer amid scrutiny over her eligibility, did not register in time for the event before applications closed on Thursday.

"The decision of Imane's exclusion is not ours. We regret it," tournament media director Dirk Renders said.

Khelif had intended to return to international competition at the tournament in Hotel Eindhoven before World Boxing announced their new sex testing policy last Friday.

Eindhoven mayor Jeroen Dijsselbloem criticised World Boxing's decision, saying: "As far as we are concerned, all athletes are welcome in Eindhoven. Excluding athletes based on controversial 'gender tests' certainly does not fit in with that,"

Writing in a letter addressed to the Dutch Boxing Federation and the International Boxing Federation, he added: "We are expressing our disapproval of this decision today and are calling on the organisation to admit Imane Khelif after all."

Khelif won a gold medal at the Paris Olympics last summer amid international scrutiny on her and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, another gold medal winner.

The previous governing body for Olympic boxing, the Russian-dominated International Boxing Association, had disqualified both fighters from their 2023 world championships after claiming they failed unspecified eligibility tests.

The IBA was banished for decades of misdeeds and controversy and the IOC have run the past two Olympic boxing tournaments themselves, applying the sex eligibility rules used in previous Olympics. Khelif and Lin were eligible to compete under those standards.

World Boxing have since been provisionally approved as the boxing organiser at the 2028 Los Angeles Games and have faced pressure from boxers and their federations to create sex eligibility standards.

World Boxing president Boris van der Vorst apologised after Khelif was singled out in the governing body's announcement last week.

Khelif planned to defend her gold medal at the LA Games, but some boxers and their federations have already spoken out against her inclusion.