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Times
30-06-2025
- Sport
- Times
Transgender teenager's German chess triumph prompts call for ban
A transgender teenager has caused an upset in German chess circles by winning an under-18 girls' national tournament, prompting calls for tougher rules even in a sedentary sport that relies on brainpower. Nora Heidemann's victory to become German champion in the female category of the youth chess championship in Willingen this month was met with criticism from some players and from the head of the German commission for women's chess, Nadja Jussupow. The former champion said that more trans women were entering women's chess tournaments since the introduction in 2024 of Germany's Self-Determination Act, which made it easier for transgender, intersex and non-binary people to have their gender and forenames changed in the civil status records. 'They haven't undergone any treatment or anything — they merely declared themselves to be women,' Jussupow told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
German ski jumper Leyhe to end career on the weekend
Former ski jumping team event world champion Stephan Leyhe will end his career at the weekend's World Cup event in Finland. His home club Willingen said in a statement on Thursday that his 240th start on Saturday will be his last. Leyhe, 33, won team gold at the 2019 worlds and also has two silvers and bronze each from team events at the Olympics and ski flying world championships. He has one World Cup victory from the home event in Willingen in 2020, and was third in the 2019 Four Hills Tour. "There have been many wonderful moments in my career that I will always remember fondly," Leyhe said. Leyhe is the second German jumper to quit. Six-time world champion Markus Eisenbichler had said recently that the World Cup finals March 28-30 on the flying hill in Planica would be his last events.
