He is not allowed to drive a car or play contact sports like soccer and doctors say he may not live past 40.

But Iram Leon, 32 – who has inoperable brain cancer – has just won a gold medal for coming in first at the Gusher Marathon in Beaumont, Texas -- all while pushing his six-year-old daughter Kiana in a stroller!

The gutsy runner won’t take the credit for being first though. He says that technically speaking his daughter is the winner because she was in the stroller he was pushing ahead of him.

Writing on his blog after finishing the race in just over three hours last Saturday, Iram said: “Here sore, reflecting and grateful. I still can’t believe that I won a marathon.

“Well, I came in second behind Kiana.”

Soon after being diagnosed with Grade II Diffuse Astrocytoma at the age of 30, Iram decided he would no longer run without taking his daughter – who lives with him the majority of the year – along.

He told The Huffington Post : “The one thing I’m not going to say on my death bed is: ‘I wish I spent more time with my kid’.”

Little Kiana knows her daddy is sick. His condition affects his memory and language skills and she has seen him suffer seizures.

Father and daughter have even p