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All but one of Olga Korbut’s Olympic medals fetch $230,000 at auction

Related Topics: 1976 Summer Olympics, Medal

Five of gymnast Olga Korbut‘s six Olympic medals were auctioned for a total of $229,200 over the weekend.

Korbut earned six medals combined for the Soviet Union at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics. She put five of the six up for auction, excluding her balance beam gold medal from Munich 1972. That gold was stolen from a Moscow museum, according to Heritage Auctions.

The highest-grossing medal was her team gold from Munich 1972, which went for $66,000. The least-grossing were her balance beam and uneven bars silver medals from Montreal 1976, going for $26,400 each.