RIO DE JANEIRO, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Some athletes desperately fight for a medal - no matter what color it may be - at the Pan American Games, but U.S. table tennis player Wang Chen did not show full satisfaction with her bronze in the women's single competition, as she gave it away to a fan who attended the game.

Wang was defeated 4-3 by Dominican Republic's Wu Xue in the semifinal match at the Riocentro Sports Complex. Following the medal ceremony, she decided to gift 11-year-old Victor Borges, who was on the stand with his family, with the bronze she had just won.

"She was visibly irritated on the podium. As she left, she threw her bunch of flowers to the crowd. Then, she came to my son, called him and gave him the medal," said the boy's mother, Margareth Ferreira.

According to the boy, the people around him wondered "Why did she do that?" He had no answer, and his only reaction was to ask the athlete to take a picture with him, as he had asked from Brazil's table tennis players.

Borges says to be a huge fan of Hugo Hoyama, who has won 13 Pan Am medals in table tennis, including nine golds. Now, he owns a similar medal to the ones that Hoyama and his partner Thiago Monteiro won in the men's singles tournament this weekend.

He also revealed that he bought a racket to practice, and may be try to win a medal as an athlete. He could follow the role-model of Paraguay's table tennis player Axel Gavillan, 12, the youngest competitor at the 2007 Pan Am Games.

"That could be me," he said.