The first Olympic gold for the two-time Cuban boxing champion Roniel Iglesiaswon in the London Olympics 2012 in the 64 kg category, is up for auction in a lot of Olympic Memorabilia of RR Auctiona well-known house in the United States.
The details of the medal are that it is gilded silver, 85 mm and 430 g, by David Watkins. “The front of the medal features the text at the top, “XXX Olympiad London 2012”, above the symbol of Nike over the Panathinaikon stadium with the Acropolis in the background. The reverse features the London Games emblem on an abstract linear background,” describe the auction house.
With the title “Olympic Memories”, the medal will be auctioned until January 18 and the bid is currently at $5,000.
Similarly, you can read the document “Full use of my powers” in support of Radoslav Ivanov, signed by the boxer himself.
The auction house clarifies that “the medal has some trivial dents and scratches.”
In early 2023, the Iglesias’ second gold medal in the welterweight category at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was sold for $83,188as announced by the auction house itself RR Auctionbased in Boston.
Roniel’s medal was one of 395 items related to the Olympic Games put up for sale in an auction that opened in December 2022 and closed on January 19, according to the website Inside The Games.
Initially, it was expected that the medal – the second Olympic gold for the boxer from Pinar del Río – would sell for around 50 thousand dollars, but it easily exceeded that figure.
In the current auction, Iglesias’ medal is accompanied by the silver of the wrestler Juan Luis Marén in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Also the medal of the same color of the boxer Sixto Soria, who lost to Leon Spinks in the final of the Montreal Games 1976.
In addition, three other medals corresponding to one of the island’s emblematic Olympic sports, baseball, are being auctioned. In no case is it revealed who the owners are.
The first is one of the gold medals the national team won by defeating Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Games.
The other two belong to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, where Cuba lost to the United States, and the other to the 2008 Beijing Games, where they lost first place to South Korea.
