--- title: Faith Kipyegon’s 5,000-M Silver Reinstated After Appeal description: A controversial disqualification for obstruction was overturned after Team Kenya appealed. canonical: https://time.com/7008134/faith-kipyegon-disqualified-olympic-race/ author: Chantelle Lee article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-08-05T21:13:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-01-19T09:56:43.000Z article:section: Sports og:title: Faith Kipyegon Disqualified From Olympic Race og:description: A controversial disqualification for obstruction was overturned after Team Kenya appealed. og:url: https://time.com/7008134/faith-kipyegon-disqualified-olympic-race/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ee93f68aafd75eb/698a599d47ca3868e23bdd8c/Kenya-Disqualification-Olympics.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ATHLETICS-OLY-PARIS-2024 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Faith Kipyegon Disqualified From Olympic Race twitter:description: A controversial disqualification for obstruction was overturned after Team Kenya appealed. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ee93f68aafd75eb/698a599d47ca3868e23bdd8c/Kenya-Disqualification-Olympics.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon Wins 5,000-M Silver After Appealing ‘Obstruction’ Disqualification > Sponsored content. 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Team USA's Noah Lyles, the defending world champion in the 100 m, won the Olympic gold medal in that race on Sunday night at Stade de France, becoming the first male sprinter from the United States to earn a 100-m Olympic title in two decades._ by [Chantelle Lee](https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/) and [Chad de Guzman](https://time.com/author/chad-de-guzman/) Updated: Jan 19, 2026 9:56 AM UTCPublished: Aug 5, 2024 9:13 PM UTC  Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon and Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay during the women’s 5,000-m final of the Paris Olympic Games at Stade de France on Aug. 5, 2024. Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon and Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay during the women’s 5,000-m final of the Paris Olympic Games at Stade de France on Aug. 5, 2024.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images by [Chantelle Lee](https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/) and [Chad de Guzman](https://time.com/author/chad-de-guzman/) Updated: Jan 19, 2026 9:56 AM UTCPublished: Aug 5, 2024 9:13 PM UTC Kenyan athlete Faith Kipyegon eventually took home silver in the women’s Olympic 5,000-m on Monday, after winning an appeal against a brief disqualification over an alleged obstruction incident. Paris Olympic organizers initially said that Kipyegon “was disqualified for obstruction following an incident between her and Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay with two laps to go.” Video footage of the competition showed that the two athletes had collided during the race. > [](https://twitter.com/ChrisChavez/status/1820546059468484828) The “questionable exchange,” as _Runner’s World_ magazine [put it](https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a61793433/faith-kipyegon-disqualified-olympic-5000/), occurred about 12.5 minutes into the race, with just two laps around the track to go, when Tsegay appeared to try to pass Kipyegon, who was leading and in the inside lane and slightly shoved Tsegay away as she came near and temporarily overtook Kipyegon. “I do not understand this,” NBC commentator and former U.S. Olympic long-distance runner Kara Goucher [said](https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-releases/notes-quotes-2024-paris-olympics-on-nbc-peacock-and-platforms-of-nbcuniversal-aug-5) of Kipyegon’s disqualification ruling after the race. “In my opinion, watching this, Tsegay is the one who tries to cut over without room.” But following an [appeal](https://x.com/OlympicsKe/status/1820554135567007968), [World Athletics](https://x.com/WorldAthletics/status/1820574086973833416) and [Team Kenya](https://x.com/OlympicsKe/status/1820573285379457189) later confirmed that Kipyegon had been reinstated as silver medalist. > [](https://twitter.com/OlympicsKe/status/1820580327854952641) Beatrice Chebet, also of Kenya, won the gold medal in the race with a time of 14 minutes and 28.56 seconds. Chebet, 24, and Kipyegon, 30, [hugged each other and celebrated](https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/athletics/beatrice-chebet-womens-5000-gold-1.7285787) after the race. But then Kipyegon’s name disappeared from the results list, and the list later indicated that she had been disqualified from the competition, temporarily pushing bronze medalist Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands to silver. [Kipyegon](https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/faith-kipyegon%5F1910451) previously won the 1,500-m gold in Rio and Tokyo, and she currently holds the world record for the event. 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