DPA
Paris
Beatrice Chebet passed world champion Faith Kipyegon on the home straight to win Olympic women’s 5,000 metres gold for Kenya before Kipyegon was disqualified for obstruction.
Twice 1,500m gold medallist Kipyegon led the final sprint from an eight-strong leader group with 500m left but the 10,000m world record holder Chebet had more strength in the end to win in 14 minutes 28.56 seconds.
Kipyegon originally trailed by 1.04 seconds for silver and the bronze initially went to Dutch Sifan Hassan, who was unable to follow the leading duo and finished 3.05 seconds behind the winner.
But in a major twist Kipyegon was then disqualified around half an hour later, with Hassan promoted to silver and Italian European champion Nadia Battocletti from fourth to bronze.
The Kenya team was expected to lodge a protest against Kipyegon’s disqualification.
The Ethiopians were no factor, with Ejgayehu Tayu their best in fourth and world record holder Gudaf Tsegay seventh.
American Valarie Allman claimed back-to-back women’s discus gold with 69.50m in a dominant showing, with all her four legal throws were good enough for victory.
Feng Bin of China got silver with 67.51m, tied with Sandra Elkasevic but better on countback with her next best throw as the Croatian took bronze.