{"id":31069,"date":"2025-09-19T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31069\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:24:09","slug":"i-need-that-guinness-now-rai-benjamin-reinstated-as-world-champion-after-controversial-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/31069\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I need that Guinness now\u2019 \u2013 Rai Benjamin reinstated as world champion after controversial disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rai<\/p>\n

Rai Benjamin of the United States celebrates the victory and winning the gold<\/p>\n

The USA\u2019s Rai Benjamin was temporarily disqualified minutes after winning the gold medal in the men\u2019s 400m hurdles in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

The American knocked over the final hurdle, before coming home in first with a blazing time of 46.52secs. <\/p>\n

But his collision on the last hurdle moved it into the path of Nigeria\u2019s Ezekiel Nathaniel, who was initially fourth and just outside of the medals, handing him a disqualification, before the decision was reversed minutes later.<\/p>\n

The controversial hit temporarily moved Brazilian Alison Dos Santos up to the gold and Qatar’s Ismail Doudai Abakar promoted to silver, while Norway\u2019s Karsten Warholm was upset with a disappointing run to finish fifth initially.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, a relieved Benjamin told RTE\u2019s David Gillick: \u201cI need that Guinness now!.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat seems insane, he didn\u2019t hit it on purpose, it didn\u2019t affect the standings of the race, I think it\u2019s very unfair,\u201d said Jess Ennis-Hill on BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

While Collin Jackson added: \u201cThat trail leg has got to go over the barrier completely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Benjamin was seen celebrating long after his race, and then continued to celebrate after the women\u2019s 400m hurdles, which was won by the Netherlands\u2019 Femke Bol, with American Jasmine Jones in silver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rai Benjamin of the United States celebrates the victory and winning the gold The USA\u2019s Rai Benjamin was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-31069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}