With just a couple of metres left to go, Sinfield lifted Burrow out of his specially adapted wheelchair and the pair completed the course together in an emotional conclusion at Headingley Stadium.
Rob Burrow’s parents, Geoff and Irene, and his sisters Claire and Joanne Rob Burrow’s parents revealed how the rugby league star died ‘very peacefully’ in hospital while surrounded by his family following his battle with Motor Neurone Disease. Burrow died on Sunday at the age of 41 having been diagnosed with MND two years after his retirement from rugby league in 2019.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next ‘He was in hospital. He smiled, we got sad and he gave us the look, you know ‘pack it in smile’ and what have you and we did our best. ‘It was very sad, surreal, you know you feel as though there is going to be a big difference and there isn’t, we still haven’t quite accepted it yet.
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