GALLERY: Sharn's iron will overcomes disability

By Lisa Wachsmuth
Updated February 8 2014 - 11:18am, first published February 6 2014 - 10:00pm
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Sharn McNeill trains for the Cairns Ironman with the help of her friend Craig Gruber. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER

Last year, fit and only 30, Bulli nurse Sharn McNeill had put just one item on her bucket list – to complete an ironman event. Then she was struck down by motor neurone disease.

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