Rare gold medal from 1904 Games goes into auction

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BOSTON—A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St.

Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on US soil, is being auctioned off as part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia representing various Olympics over the decades.

In 2022, 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.

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Published On: 2025-01-18 @ 16:03:00 (22 hours ago)

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