“Had we been conscious, or had this been declared at any level earlier than or through the competitors, this athlete wouldn’t have been permitted to compete within the Lady’s Open class,” the assertion added.

“It’s our accountability to make sure equity and guarantee athletes are assigned to males or girls’s classes primarily based on whether or not they’re recorded as male or feminine at start.”

Thompson, first topped world’s strongest lady in 2018, stated the style she had received the title had taken the gloss off it, however praised Strongman for “investigating and rectifying the state of affairs so shortly”.

“What needs to be a momentous event has sadly been overshadowed by scandal and dishonesty from somebody who was welcomed into our loopy sport,” she stated in a publish on her Instagram, exterior account.

“I’m not solely pissed off with not having the ability to have a good time a win, but additionally for the women who had their time to shine on the rostrum or attain the ultimate day, taken away from them.”

Thompson, from Suffolk, stated she and fellow opponents had been “mentally drained” having “obtained backlash and insults” for the reason that determination, which “must cease”.

“This has been essentially the most exhausting expertise of my profession,” she added.

“We, as a neighborhood are taking a stand. Defending girls’s sport as we have now fought so laborious for.”