Former Leeds Rhinos star Rob Burrow, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, has died at the age of 41.
Burrow, who was 41, had lived with motor neurone disease for nearly five years after being diagnosed in late 2019.
In 2022, Burrow was honoured with the Helen Rollason Award at BBC's Sports Personality of the Year ceremony, along with ex-Leeds team-mate Kevin Sinfield. Leeds said of Burrow: "He never allowed others to define what he could achieve and believed in his own ability to do more.
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