Steve Fonyo, who lost his leg to cancer as a child and ran a marathon across Canada to raise millions for cancer research, has died. He was 56.
Fonyo’s niece Melody Kruppa says Fonyo had what appeared to be a seizure in a hotel room in Burnaby, B.C., on Friday and paramedics could not revive him.
Fonyo lost a leg to cancer when he was 12 and became a national hero in 1985 after completing a Canada-wide marathon to raise money for cancer research, five years after Terry Fox attempted the same thing.
Fonyo was appointed an officer of the
