A QUAD from York City Rowing Club have returned from Nottingham with a national veterans' crown.

The quartet of Piet de Boer, Jon Whitmore, Colin Jones and Nick Price beat teams from London and Cambridge to win the over-55s race in the event on the Trent.

The victory was all the more special for de Boer and Whitmore, who have recently come back from injury. De Boer had a ruptured Achilles tendon, while Whitmore had back problems.

De Boer said: "The Living Well Fitness Club have done remedial work with us and we have to acknowledge their help because we've gone from winning nothing to winning the national veteran title."

"We've been beating people who are a third of our age and we've never done that before."

Updated: 11:05 Tuesday, June 17, 2003