Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski, who won silver at the Rio Olympics, has auctioned off his medal to fund treatment for a three-year-old boy with cancer.
The 33-year-old world champion wrote on his Facebook page that he was moved to sell his accolade after receiving a letter from the mother of a boy called Olek who said he had been battling a rare form of eye cancer for two years.
According to Malachowski, the boy needs to travel to New York to receive specialist treatment which is not available in Poland.
"I fought for gold in Rio. Today I'm calling on everyone to fight for something even more precious," Malachowski wrote.
"If you help me, my silver medal may turn out to be more precious than gold for Olek," he said, adding that he would use the entire sum raised to pay for the boy's treatment.
A while later, Malachowski wrote "Success", saying the medal had found a taker.
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