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Carlo The IAAF is pleased to announce that its charity auction of items of World and Olympic athletics memorabilia, which were so generously donated by numerous legends of our sport, raised over US$30,000 in aid of three United Nations organisations, FAO, UNICEF and WFP.
The total will be equally divided between these three partners of the IAAF’s humanitarian project ‘Athletics for a Better World: The IAAF Stars’ Donation Fund’. The IAAF is paying all auction fees and the cost of shipping the items to their winning bidders around the world.
Check out - http://www.iaaf.org/AFABW for further information.
The auction ended yesterday afternoon (30 Jan), and somewhat appropriately the last item on offer, the gold medal competition kit and bib number which Hicham El Guerrouj wore when he won his first ever global title, raised the most for any individual item – US$3,406.98. The second highest sale price was the US$2,443.01 bid for Haile Gebrselassie’s framed 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games competition bib number. The next best figure was for the right foot sprinting spike of Asafa Powell, from when he broke the men’s 100m World record in Athens last June, which garnered US$1,830.74.
"On behalf of the IAAF, I would like to sincerely thank all those athletes and fans who have taken part in this first ever online auction to raise money and public awareness for UN humanitarian causes,” commented IAAF President Lamine Diack. “When we first launched "Athletics for a Better World", we did so with the confidence that our sport's top stars, past and present, would show that they cared deeply about creating a better world, by donating articles of personal value. Thanks to the support of the public, I am delighted that we are now able to donate more than US$30,000, divided equally between FAO, UNICEF, and WFP, and that we have also helped to publicise the important work being done by these UN organisations."
TOTAL RAISED:
US$30,724.26*
Full list of ‘Athletics for a Better World’ donors, and the amounts raised from their donations in US$:
Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR) – 733.48 US$
Bob Beamon (USA) – 329.76
Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) – 915.12
Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE) – 488.47
Nezha Bidouane (MAR) – 537.04
Sergey Bubka (UKR) – 948.63
Vanderlei Cordeiro De Lima (BRA) – 578.19
Ladji Doucouré (FRA) – 170.91
Heike Drechsler (GER) – 324.86
Jonathan Edwards (GBR) – 183.03
Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) – 3,406.98
Beatrice Faumuina (NZL) – 122.46
Allyson Felix (USA) – 484.93
Debbie Ferguson (BAH) – 158.82
Dick Fosbury (USA) – 123.66
Justin Gatlin (USA) – 583.14
Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) – 2,443.01
Joanna Hayes (USA) – 248.53
Stefan Holm (SWE) – 305.51
Kelly Holmes (GBR) – 243.68
Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS) – 654.23
Colin Jackson (GBR) – 672.79
Allen Johnson (USA) – 267.92
Michael Johnson (USA) – 546.76
Wilson Kipketer (DEN) – 391.03
Carolina Klüft (SWE) – 911.59
Robert Korzeniowski (POL) – 366.09
Carl Lewis (USA) – 1,042.31
Tegla Loroupe (KEN) – 355.11
Koji Murofushi (JPN) – 606.14
Maria Mutola (MOZ) – 1,078.92
Catherine Ndereba (KEN) – 261.85
Adam Nelson (USA) – 438.82
Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL) – 366.09
Al Oerter (USA) – 425.49
Christian Olsson (SWE) – 110.33
Marie José Pérec (FRA) – 378.26
Asafa Powell (JAM) – 1,830.74
Ana Quirot (CUB) – 664.35
Paula Radcliffe (GBR) – 672.84
Felix Sanchez (DOM) – 425.43
Roman Sebrle (CZE) – 549.07
Bruny Surin (CAN) – 219.38
Paul Tergat (KEN) – 962.61
Lasse Viren (FIN) – 494.62
Jeremy Wariner (USA) – 243.68
Lauryn Williams (USA) – 367.36
Tonique Williams-Darling (BAH) – 426.77
Liu Xiang (CHN) – 746.86
Jan Zelezny (CZE) – 794.15
The Bahamas’ 4x400m relay team (BAH) – 122.46
* all prices converted at a universal rate for Euro/USD