Medal of German Olympian who defied Hitler in ’36 Games auctioned at nearly $500,000 – Silver medalist Luz Long known as first to congratulate Black-American gold medal winner Jesse Owens, who previously said Nazi leader ‘must have gone crazy’ watching embrace | Timesofisrael
LAGUNA NIGUEL, California — The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum the auction house said was a record price for a publicly sold second-place prize.
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