On Sunday, Toronto police officer Steve Campbell completed the 200 kilometre Ride to Conquer Cancer cycling race --- one year after his wife died of cancer!

After the race, in which 4,610 people participated and which finished in Niagara Falls, Constable Campbell said that he finished this year’s race in his wife's memory. Campbell – whose daughters were cheering him from the stands – added: “I know wherever she was she was, she was saying ‘good job’.”

The completion of the cancer cycling race by Campbell was all the more an emotional occasion for him because he had left last year’s race partway through the first day, to be by the side of his dying wife.

Campbell’s wife battled breast and lung cancer for 15 years, and, a few days before the last year event, she was admitted to the hospital due to heart trouble.

Even in spite of her declining health, she insisted that Campbell should go ahead with his plan of participating in the race, which he could not complete --- since she was on her deathbed, Campbell left the race in between and get back to her. She died a few hours later.

Ecstatic that her father could complete this year’s race on the anniversary of her mother’s death – a “hard day” for the Campbell family -, Constable Campbell’s daughter Kim said: “Seeing him come in with a big smile was just so great. We’re really proud of him”!