Gella Vandecaveye’s stolen Olympic medals found in Antwerp

Belgian ex-judoka Gella Vandecaveye will get her two stolen Olympic medals back after more than a year and a half. Through a remarkable advertisement on 2dehands.be, the Marketplace of Belgium, that is. A boy unsuspectingly put the medals up for sale online.

For a year and a half they were missing: the Olympic medals of Belgian judoka Gella Vandecaveye. Her two Olympic medals were stolen from her car in an underground parking lot in Brussels. Now Vandecaveye has found them again: they are for sale on an online marketplace for millions of euros, reports Sporza. Vandecaveye won the silver medal in the -61 kg class at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. Four years later, she tore her cruciate ligaments …

The stolen Olympic medals of former judoka Gella Vandecaveye have been found during house searches in Antwerp. This was reported by the East Flanders public prosecutor's office. An investigation was launched yesterday after the medals suddenly turned up on the website 2dehands.be.

Judoka had seen her precious rewards stolen in 2023. She saw them reappear on an online resale site.

18:22 Former judoka Gella Vandecaveye gets her stolen Olympic medals back after they surfaced on the website 2dehands. What are the responsibilities of buyers and sellers in such cases?

Two Olympic medals belonging to the former Belgian judoca Gella Vandecaveye were recovered on a second-hand website in Belgium after their theft in 2023, announced this Sunday the prosecution of the region of East Flanders. The medals, a silver medal won at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a bronze medal from the 2000 Olympic Games, were stolen from the Olympic sports car in November 2023 when it was parked in the underground parking lot of the Bru…