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A Smooth javelin thrower who won silvery in the Tokyo Olympics auctioned off her medal for $125,000 to help a infant in her country go life-saving center surgery in the US – and the winner rewarded her kindness past letting her keep it, co-ordinate to a report.
Five days after her 2d-place finish, Maria Andrejczyk, 25, appear on Facebook that she decided to sell her medal to heighten funds for 8-month-one-time Miloszek Malysa, who has to travel to California to undergo the surgery at Stanford University Medical Center.
The altruistic athlete, a cancer survivor who didn't know the babe, wrote that she acted after reading his parents' pleas online, Yahoo Sports reported.
"Miłoszek has a serious heart defect, he needs an operation," Andrejczyk wrote in Shine, according to Google Translate. "He also has support from to a higher place from Kubuś — a male child who did not make it on time, but wonderful people decided to donate his funds to Miłoszek.
"And this is how I desire to help as well. Information technology is for him that I am auctioning off my Olympic silver medal," she added.
Andrejczyk wrote that Miloszek needed i.v million zlotys — most $385,000 — to cover the costs of his transportation to the US and treatment.
She wrote that half the corporeality had already been raised by a family unit fundraiser and that her goal forth with Małysa's mom was to raise the other half through the Olympic auction.
Andrejczyk — who came in fourth in the 2016 Rio Olympics — was diagnosed in 2018 with osteosarcoma, a cancer that forms in the cells that course bones, according to Yahoo Sports.
She required surgery, only not chemotherapy and was able to resume training for the Tokyo Games in 2019.
On Aug. vi, she won the silver with a throw of 64.61 meters, behind Prc's gold-medal winner Shiying Liu, whose javelin flew 66.34 meters.
"The true value of a medal ever remains in the heart. A medal is only an object, but it can exist of great value to others. This silvery tin can save lives, instead of collecting dust in a closet. That is why I decided to auction it to aid ill children," Andrejczyk told a Smoothen Boob tube station, the Times of London reported.
On Monday, Andrejczyk announced on Facebook that a Polish convenience shop chain made the winning bid.
"Nosotros have the winner of the auction!" she wrote. "On Friday I received this wonderful information, and due to the fact that yous dears have already done wonders and joint forces take paid more than than the equivalent of the initial medal to the Miłoszek account — I decided to terminate the auction then that our Miłoszek will receive the whole amount every bit soon as possible and can fly to the USA."
She added: "The winner, and at the same time, the company I volition be eternally grateful to is the company Zabka."
The company then made its own announcement on Facebook.
"Nosotros were moved by the beautiful and extremely noble gesture" made by Andrejczyk, Zabka wrote. "We likewise decided that the silver medal from Tokyo will stay with Ms. Maria."
Some other Pole, Piotr Malachowksi, besides sold the silverish medal he won in Rio to pay for a boy's surgery for eye cancer. A billionaire paid for the medal and the functioning, co-ordinate to the Times of London.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2021/08/18/olympian-maria-andrejczyk-sold-medal-to-fund-infants-surgery/