Maria Andrejczyk gained silver medal with a throw of 64.61m in ladies’s javelin last on the Tokyo Olympics.© Instagram
Poland’s Maria Andrejczyk gained the silver medal on the Tokyo Olympics with a finest try of 64.61m within the ladies’s javelin throw last on August 6. While Andrejczyk’s efficiency bought her a podium end on the quadrennial occasion, it was her sort gesture after the Games that made folks the world over arise and tip their hats to her. Andrejczyk auctioned her Olympic silver medal to assist increase funds for an eight-month-old boy who wanted a coronary heart surgical procedure within the USA.
Andrejczyk took to Facebook on August 11 to announce that she could be auctioning her Olympic silver after coming throughout a fundraiser for Miloszek Malysa.
“He already has a head start from Kubus — a boy who didn’t make it in time but whose amazing parents decided to pass on the funds they collected. And in this way, I also want to help. It’s for him that I am auctioning my Olympic silver medal,” ESPN translated Andrejczyk’s Facebook submit which she wrote in Polish.
On Monday, Andrejczyk introduced {that a} grocery store chain — Zabka — gained the public sale by inserting a bid of USD 125,000. In one other submit on Facebook, Zabka revealed that the medal will stick with the 25-year-old Olympian from Poland.
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Andrejczyk had missed out on a medal on the 2016 Rio Olympics by a whisker after ending fourth with a finest try of 64.78. She missed out on a podium end by a margin of 0.02cm.
In 2019, Maria Andrejczyk underwent a surgical procedure after being identified with an osteoma, a benign bone tumour. However, she recovered and bought her first Olympic medal in Tokyo.
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