So you cant afford an olympic gold medal, how about the next best thing?

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    So as per my usual fare of unique items i have an 1939 AAA championship Gold medal awarded to Richard Webster for Pole jump. This is a truly one off item that is made of 9ct gold so its win win for the stacker who already has everything and wants something that gives you full bragging rights. With only 25 gold medals issued every year this is about as low mintage an item as you can get, struck in fully hallmarked 9ct gold with a fantastic high relief stike this is a work of art. Add to that the next best thing, an Olympic gold medal, will set you back close to $1mil (one sold for $1.4 mil USD in 2013) this is a bargain at only $3500!!
    https://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/jesse-owens-olympic-medal-1936-auction

    The AAA Championships was an annual track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England. It was the foremost domestic athletics event in the United Kingdom during its lifetime.

    The competition was founded in 1880, replacing the Amateur Athletic Club (AAC) Championships, which had been held since 1866. Initially a men-only competition, a Women's AAA Championships was introduced in 1922 with the first proper WAAA Championships in 1923 and organised by the Women's Amateur Athletics Association until 1992, at which point it was folded into the Amateur Athletics Association. During the 1920s and early 1930s, the AAA Championships was Europe's most prestigious athletics event until the European Athletics Championships were inaugurated in 1934. Events were contested and measured in imperial units until metrification in 1969, in line with international standards.

    Though organised by the English governing body, it was open to all athletes from the United Kingdom, and also to overseas athletes. It served as the de-facto British Championships, given the absence of such a competition for most of its history. It was typically held over two or three days over a weekend in July or August. Foreign athletes were no longer allowed to compete from 1998 onwards (with the change first being trialled in 1996), though they were still allowed to participate (but not formally placed) in the 10,000 m and marathon events.

    Brigadier Frederick Richard "Dick" Webster (31 December 1914 – 28 September 2009) was a British Army officer and Olympic pole vaulter. Brigadier Dick Webster, who died on September 28 aged 94, was the finest British pole-vaulter of the first half of the 20th century; he achieved his best height — 13ft 1½in — at the Berlin Olympics of 1936, where he was equal sixth and established a British record which stood for the next 14 years.

    http://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/AAAPV.htm

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/6509538/Brigadier-Dick-Webster.html


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