Terry Fox was clearly high on need for achievement. Having lost his right leg to cancer, he intended to fundraise for the disease by running from St John’s to Victoria. In 1980 he ran for 143 days and 5373 km, through gale force winds, rainstorms, stress injuries, and fatigue (probably related to recurrent cancer), before he was forced by his illness to stop outside of Thunder Bay. His achievement raised $12 million for cancer research (worth $35 million today). Since then, Terry Fox Runs in schools and communities across the country have raised more than half a billion dollars for cancer research.

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