Ukrainian Olympian Ruslan Mezentsev put his medal -- earned during the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney -- on the auction block, raising $15K to help fund his homeland's war efforts against Russia.
Ultimately, he helped his team take home the silver medal by scoring 28.725 and bringing the team's total 230.306. The Ukrainians finished just 1.613 points behind China, which won the gold medal.
Now, that silver medal is in the hands of an anonymous bidder ... and Ruslan, who is originally from a town called Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine, is giving all the coins back to his country as the war continues.
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