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The Terry Fox Run is an annual non-competitive charity event held around the world to raise money for cancer research in commemoration of Canadian cancer activist Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope. The event was founded in 1981 by Isadore Sharp , who had contacted Terry in hospital by telegram and expressed his wishes to hold an annual run in ...
Grants from the Terry Fox Foundation, which organizes the runs, have helped Canadian scientists make numerous advances in cancer research. [100] The Terry Fox Run is the world's largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research, [101] and over $850 million has been raised in his name as of May 2022. [102]
The Terry Fox Monument, situated in the outskirts of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, is a public monument commemorating cancer research activist Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope. [1] The monument, which depicts Fox, is open to the public and offers a panoramic view of Thunder Bay and its surroundings.
Sharp helped start and is the director of the Terry Fox Run. He first met Terry Fox when the latter arrived in Montreal in June 1980 during his trek across the country to raise money for cancer research. Sharp invited Fox to rest in one of the city's Four Seasons hotels for a week before resuming his run, helped pay for his cancer treatment ...
Terry Fox expressed to his mother his wish to raise awareness and funds for cancer research. He began the Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980, which was a run across Canada from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, to raise money for cancer research. He reached 5,373 kilometres (3,339 mi) over 143 days before finding the ...
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In doing so, he followed in the footsteps of Terry Fox. Fonyo began his run on March 31, 1984, and completed it 425 days later on May 29, 1985, covering 7,924 km (4,924 mi), and raising $14 million. Unlike Fox, who had to abandon the Marathon of Hope when his cancer returned, Fonyo completed the coast-to-coast run. He also completed a run ...
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