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The 25-year-old Polish athlete won his first Olympic award in Tokyo. M. Andrejczyk was second in the spear throwing competition, with Lithuanian Liveta Jasiūnaitė finishing seventh. Only Liu Shiying, the Chinese, who won the gold, kept flying behind the Polish spear.
And although it was Maria’s first medal in a competition of this rank, the athlete, who had just returned from Japan, did not hesitate to say goodbye to him. After learning about the difficult situation in which Miloszek’s family was for 8 months, the athlete decided to help her.
“It just came to our attention then. I think this is the right decision,” said the athlete who sold the medal at the auction.
The initial price of the medal was 200,000 zlotys (about 43.8 thousand euros), and in the end the auction was won and the medal was bought by the Polish retail chain Žabka, without sparing 106 thousand. euros.
Mary Andrejczyk
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Mr. Andrejczyk immediately transferred the money received to Miloszek’s family account, thus guaranteeing that the amount necessary for the complex operation would be raised, which is only possible at the Stanford University Clinic in California. In total, the Malay family needed to collect around 325,000. A large part of this amount was covered by the Tokyo Olympic Silver.
“It is a great pleasure to enter my medal in the Žabka retail chain. For me, my medal symbolizes struggle, faith and the pursuit of a dream, despite the many challenges that arise, the athlete wrote on Facebook.” I hope that this medal is also a symbol of the life for which we fight together “.
The Žabka shopping center, which won the auction, announced that it would return the medal to M. Andrejczyk.
“We were moved by the beautiful and extremely noble deeds of our Olympian,” said Žabka. – We decided to help raise money for Milosek’s seriously ill family. We also believe that the medal should go to its winner Maria, who has shown exceptional goodwill. “
Ms. Andrejczyk also participated in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, but was only an inch short of the Olympic prize.
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