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Maria Andrejczyk Auctions Tokyo Olympic Medal For Charity

By Wendi Oliveros August 20, 2021 @WendiOliveros1

Silver medalist Maria Andrejczyk of Team Poland stands on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women’s Javelin Throw on day fifteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium on August 07, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.
(Photo by Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)

 

The world needs to hear more stories like this.

Maria Andrejczyk, a javelin thrower from Poland, won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Maria AndreczykđŸŒŸâœšđŸ„ pic.twitter.com/pETVzvqvir

— Doug Roling (@DougRoling1) August 18, 2021

Andrejczyk had plans for her medal; none of which people could have expected.

She put it up for auction and got $125,000 for it.

Andrejczyk planned to donate all of the proceeds to a fundraiser for an 8-month-old Polish child named MiƂoszek MaƂysa.

He is dealing with a serious heart defect that required surgery and care.

His family could not afford the health care expenses or the travel costs.

The necessary surgery has to be done at Stanford University Medical Center in California.

 

Pay It Forward

Polish javelinist Maria Andrejczyk auctioned her #Tokyo2020 silver medal for $125k USD to help send 8-month-old MiƂoszek MaƂysa to Stanford University for heart surgery

ƻabka, a chain of Polish supermarkets, submitted the winning bid before giving the medal back to Andrejczyk pic.twitter.com/NLjX9RgjGO

— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) August 17, 2021

Think this is the ultimate pay-it-forward gesture?

Well, the story does not end here, and more generosity followed.

Andrejczyk put the medal up for auction on August 11 with a starting bid of $50,000.

She ended the auction on August 16.

Andrejczyk said:

“I decided to end the auction so that our MiƂosz would receive the entire amount as soon as possible and could fly to the USA.”

Ć»abka, a Polish supermarket chain, won the auction, and in the ultimate act of double charity, the business returned the medal to Andrejczyk and donated the $125,000 bid to the boy’s medical care.

For her part, Andrejczyk had no problems parting with the medal.

She said:

“The true value of a medal always remains in the heart. A medal is only an object, but it can be of great value to others. This silver can save lives, instead of collecting dust in a closet. That is why I decided to auction it to help sick children.”

 

About Andrejczyk

 

It is not as though she had Olympic medals sitting around.

Competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was a huge accomplishment for her, and winning a silver medal an even bigger one.

She was within striking distance at the 2016 Rio Olympics, falling two centimeters short of medaling.

On top of that, the 25-year-old Andrejczyk had her own health issues in the past few years.

First, a shoulder injury that required surgery and rehabilitation limited her ability to compete in 2017.

In 2018, she was diagnosed with bone cancer.

She described her condition after the fact.

“It was not something very dangerous and I knew I could make a quick recovery. It was a soft cancer and I didn’t have to go through chemotherapy.”

There has been no word from the boy’s family or Stanford if a date for the surgery has been set.

Both Andrejczyk and the Polish supermarket chain Ć»abka show all of us what generosity looks like and how it can potentially change someone’s life.

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Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Poland

About Wendi Oliveros

Wendi Oliveros, a Pennsylvania native, is a freelance writer and avid sports fan. She realized at a young age that she was a much better spectator than a participant, Follow her on Twitter at @WendiOliveros1 and on TikTok at @brownsspice

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