Tokyo Olympics medalist Maria Andrejczyk auctions her silver medal
Maria Andrejczyk, a silver medallist
in the javelin throw at the Tokyo Olympics, has auctioned her medal for $125,000 to assist a child in her home Poland get life-saving heart surgery.
Maria Andrejczyk, a Polish javelin thrower, sold her silver medal
from the Tokyo Olympics for $125,000 to help finance the heart surgery of an eight-month-old baby in her homeland.
The convenience store business Poland aka Polska won the bidding battle and paid $125,000 for Andrejczyk’s
silver medal, with the javelin star asking that she retain her medal.
According to the Daily Mail,
the kid will have surgery at Stanford University.
With a throw of 64.61 metres, Maria Andrejczyk won silver, while Kelsey-Lee Barber of Australia
got bronze with a throw of 64.56 metres, her best performance of the season.
She finished second behind China’s Liu Shiying,
who won the gold medal with a throw of 66.34 metres.
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Andrejczyk, who finished fourth
in the 2016 Olympics and was a favourite after setting the world record of 71.40 metres in May, was unable to duplicate his performance.
The Polish Javelin champion spoke out about her decision to auction off her medal, claiming
she did it on the spur of the decision to help him out by selling her treasured asset.
“It was my first fundraiser, and I knew it was the correct one,”
she said on her Facebook page in her native tongue
e on August 11. The funds were utilised to assist Miloszek, a young Polish child. He suffers from a severe cardiac condition that necessitates surgery.
“He already has a leg up on Kubus,” she said on Facebook, “a child
who didn’t make it in time but whose loving parents chose to give him the money they raised.”
Tokyo Olympics medalist Maria Andrejczyk auctions her silver medal