Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctions her Tokyo Olympics silver medal to help fund baby's heart surgery

The child will now undergo surgery at Stanford University, as per reports. The fundraiser was started by his family to collect 1.5 million Polish zloty (Rs 2.86 crore) for the same.

In a heart-warming gesture, Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctioned off her silver medal, which she won in the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, for $125,000 to fund a life-saving heart surgery of an eight-month boy. The 25-year-old wanted to help a stranger following her medal-winning feat, and said on her Facebook page this was the first fundraiser she stumbled upon. “It was the first fundraiser I entered and I knew it was the right one," she wrote on her Facebook wall on August 11 in her native language. The fundraiser was for a young Polish boy who goes by the name of Miloszek. He has a serious heart defect and requires surgery.