Olympic long jump record gold medal sold for $441,000 at Christie's in New York. The jump at the 1968 Mexico Olympics reached 8.9 meters, a world record until the Tokyo World Championships in 1991.
Christie's experts valued this medal at between 400,000 and $600,000. The auction house declined to reveal the name of the buyer.. Bob Beamon said he remembered this “extraordinary day” of October 18, 1968. “That day, everything was perfect for me. The wind was perfect. The weather was perfect when I jumped,” he recalled.