AUGUSTA – The Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care has received a $25,000 donation from a former Olympic gold-medal figure skater.

Scott Hamilton, one of the world’s top figure skaters in the 1980s, won a gold in men’s singles figure skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.

Dr. Andrew Hertler, the center’s medical director, said Hamilton – a survivor of testicular cancer – made the donation through The Pioneer Fund, a Denver-based foundation on which he is a board member. It will be placed in an endowment that helps cancer patients and their families pay for travel expenses to the treatment center.

Hamilton’s first figure skating show was in Maine, and he has many friends within Maine’s figure skating community.