Kevin Sinfield completes the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon as MND fundraising continues

Kevin Sinfield was among more than 14,000 people who took part in the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon on Sunday as fundraising efforts continued for his former Leeds Rhinos team-mate and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Burrow was originally supposed to join Sinfield at 25 miles, but could not due to warm weather and logistics.

Instead, he waited at the finish line at Headingley, where one of his daughters presented Sinfield with his medal.

Last year there were touching scenes of Sinfield lifting his friend from his specially adapted wheelchair and carrying him over his shoulder as the pair completed the inaugural Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon together.

Sinfield, who ran seven ultramarathons in as many days in seven cities around the UK and Ireland at the start of December, has raised more than £15million since his friend was diagnosed with the incurable, life-limiting condition in December 2019 .

Burrow and Sinfield’s former teammate Jamie Jones-Buchanan completed the course on Sunday with his wife.

Marathon runners began the event at 9 a.m. before half marathon runners, including Burrow’s wife Lindsey, started an hour later.

Sinfield said in a video posted by the MND Association on X: “We can’t thank enough the people, the volunteers, the people who helped make this happen today, every runner who put in that hard work and then those on the streets who have helped make it such a special day again.”

Asked if there were any more challenges in the works, he replied: “We haven’t announced one yet, but we’re going again, so watch this space.”