Ukrainian Olympic gymnast Ruslan Mezentsev is auctioning off his silver medal from the 2000 Sydney Video games and donating the cash to his nation’s struggle effort towards Russia.
The medal is presently on sale at RR Public sale, the place the bidding stands at $3,000.
Mezetsev competed within the flooring train, pommel horse, and nonetheless rings within the males’s throughout competitors, serving to Ukraine to a rating of 230.306, ending second behind China. The nation received 23 whole medals on the Sydney Video games, together with three golds, in males’s skeet capturing, and two in swimming — the ladies’s 200 and 400-meter particular person medley.
The customer’s premium from the sale, which usually goes to the public sale home, may also be donated to struggle funds, in response to TMZ.
Mezetsev, 41, additionally competed on the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the place his finest end in an occasion was seventh within the staff all-around competitors.
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