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After Olympic joy, Israeli medal winner raises money for cancer hospital

August 24, 2016 15:05
Bronze medal winner Yarden Gerbi

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Lianne Kolirin ,

Lianne Kolirin

1 min read

An Israeli bronze medallist has put her Olympic identity tag up for sale to raise money for charity.

Yarden Gerbi, who won third place in the women’s 63kg judo at Rio, listed the name patch on eBay after returning from Brazil.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the top bid stood at $13,100 (£9,890), which the athlete has pledged to donate to a Tel Aviv hospital.

Ms Gerbi, only the second Israeli woman to win an Olympic medal, said that using her tag to support the paediatric cancer treatment facility at Ichilov Hospital will make it “more special for society”.

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