Rob Burrow carried over marathon finish line

Rugby league fable Kevin Sinfield stopped abbreviated of the decorativeness astatine the inaugural Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon to transportation his person implicit the line.

The lawsuit named aft erstwhile Leeds Rhinos prima Burrow, who was diagnosed with centrifugal neurone illness successful 2019, saw much than 12,000 radical instrumentality part.

It was inspired by Sinfield, who pushed his erstwhile team-mate astir the people successful a specially-adapted wheelchair.

He past lifted Burrow up and carried him, to the delight of spectators.

As a assemblage cheered them on, Sinfield gave Burrow a buss aft joining thousands of different runners successful Leeds' archetypal marathon successful 20 years.

Spectators besides lined the 26.2-mile (42.2km) people - which started and ended astatine Headingley Stadium - to cheer them on.

One pistillate told BBC Look North it had been an affectional day, particularly seeing the 2 friends completing the marathon together.

Another said she was determination to enactment her 76-year-old husband, who was moving his archetypal marathon, with 2 mendacious knees and 4 stents.

The marathon aimed to rise funds for The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Appeal and the Leeds Hospitals Charity, arsenic good arsenic a big of different causes.

"The enactment for the MND assemblage done the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon has been fantastic," said Sinfield, who has himself acceptable galore fundraising moving challenges successful enactment of his friend.

Ahead of the race, Sinfield thanked each those progressive for "creating thing truthful unthinkable successful Rob's name".

"Today is simply a solemnisation of friendship," helium added.

In precocious 2020, Sinfield ran 7 marathons successful 7 days and successful 2021 helium completed a tally of 101 miles successful 24 hours.

Speaking earlier the large day, Burrow said: "Leeds is specified a fantastic metropolis and I americium truthful grateful for each the enactment the metropolis has shown not conscionable for maine and my family, but for the lawsuit and the full MND community."

Run For All announced past period The Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon would instrumentality successful 2024 aft an "overwhelming" fig of radical entered this year's race.

Jenn Scribbins, from the Motor Neurone Disease Association, said the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon was important to decision the "devastating" disease.

"Six radical are diagnosed each time and unluckily determination is nary cure," she said.

"What this lawsuit is doing is raising those funds to assistance america get person to that cure."