Canada _ (Commonwealth Union) _ Tyler McGregor, the captain of the Canadian Paralympic hockey team, skated 42 kilometers across the world’s longest ice-skating track close to Invermere, British Columbia, as part of his cross-country fundraising effort for cancer research.
The 28-year-old athlete visited the Lake Windermere Whiteway on Monday morning for his third leg in this year’s Sledge Skate of Hope campaign. The 30-kilometer outdoor ice track was recognized as the longest of its kind in the world by Guinness World Records in 2014.
The lake and the neighborhood, he remarked, “are amazing.” “Absolutely delighted to be here.” McGregor’s achievement came after he skated 42 kilometers in Calgary’s Bowness Park earlier this month and the same distance at Halifax’s Emera Oval. He still has seven 42-kilometer runs left. McGregor said the Marathon of Hope inspired him to launch Sledge Skate of Hope, and he hopes his campaign will encourage young people facing challenges to strive for whatever they want to accomplish.
After earning bronze and silver medals with Team Canada at the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 and Pyeongchang in 2018, McGregor led Canada’s para hockey team to silver at the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games in 2022.
After breaking his left leg at a hockey game at the age of 15, McGregor, a resident of Forest, Ontario, was given the diagnosis of spindle cell sarcoma, an incredibly uncommon bone disease. Following that, he had his leg amputated.
The Terry Fox Foundation’s Marathon of Hope, an annual charity event in which McGregor has taken part since he was a young boy, funds cancer research, which, according to McGregor, helped him survive his struggle.
McGregor launched his campaign in February 2021, and in only two weeks, he had raised more than $30,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation.
