Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire and the Terry Fox Run Join Together Once Again to Raise Money for Cancer Research

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Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire and the Terry Fox Run Join Together Once Again to Raise Money for Cancer Research

The UK will bring together millions of people to fight in Terry Fox Runs globally via a pragmatic event on September 20, 2020, to honour the 40th anniversary of Terry Foxs historic Marathon of Hope. Terry Fox, a 22-year-old athlete who lost his leg to osteogenic sarcoma, a rare bone cancer, made headers in 1980 when he ran 3,339 miles over 143 days across Canada to raise awareness and money for cancer research.

Known as the Marathon of Hope, Terry had organised to run across the country, but he had to stop earlier than anticipated on September 1, 1980, as sadly cancer had spread to his lungs. During the Marathon of Hope, he equated a marathon every day having a single hop as he worked a prosthetic leg.

Inspired by Terry, Four Seasons Founder and Chairman Isadore Sharp personally pledged to Terrys cause and wrote to 999 other Canadian executives urging them to support cancer research.

Sadly Terry surrendered to the disease the following year.The first Terry Fox Run was made by Sharp and Four Seasons and held in 1981, and today there is more than 9,000 yearly Terry Fox Runs around the world, all volunteer-led and organised. To date more than GBP 500 million has been raised.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope, the team at Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire is delighted to once again support the charity and help promote the cause by welcoming guests from all around the world to compete in the Terry Fox Run on Sunday, September 20, 2020, for a virtual run, walk or bike ride.

This is the first time that the ceremony will be held in the UK for 13 years and to mark this milestone, the UK Terry Fox Association has partnered with The Institute of Cancer Research, a world-class cancer research organisation with academic excellence in cancer discoveries for more than 100 years.

The money raised for this UK charity will stay in the UK for cancer research. The event is free to enter, non-competitive and open-to-all. Participants are just being asked to share their achievements by posting a picture of their run, walk or bike ride on social with #TerryFoxRunUK to celebrate that same hope and community that inspired the first run organised by Terry Fox in 1980.