The top sporting moment in this province’s history has been named by the BC Sports Hall of Fame – and the winner will come as no surprise to many.
Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope was announced as the champion at the BC Sports Hall of Fame’s Annual Banquet of Champions tonight.
The number one moment was decided in a bracket tournament, where 50 different famous events in B.C.’s sporting history were narrowed down, with tens of thousands of votes cast by the public.
The Marathon of Hope defeated Sidney Crosby’s Golden Goal, which gave Canada the gold medal in men’s hockey in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
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Fox, born in Winnipeg and raised in Port Coquitlam, was just 19 when he diagnosed with cancer and had his leg amputated.
In 1980, following months of training, he began his Marathon of Hope in St. John’s, Newfoundland, running the equivalent of at least one marathon a day to raise money for cancer research.
Fox ran for 143 days and 5,373 kilometres before he was forced to stop in Thunder Bay due to cancer returning. He died the next year, but not before over $25 million had been raised for cancer research.
Since then, over $700 million has been raised by the Terry Fox Foundation.
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