York athlete John Brooks raced to second place at the East Midlands Indoor Rowing Championship.

The 41-year-old rowed 2,000 metres on the Concept 2 indoor rower in six minutes 35.9 seconds to claim silver in his class.

The series started with a first round race in Dublin in December and will culminate with third and fourth round races in Manchester in February and Cardiff in March.

Fastest man on the day was Wigan police diver Chris Rushton-one of the top indoor rowers in the world-who raced the 2,000 metres in 5 minutes 58.7 seconds.

Updated: 11:58 Tuesday, January 29, 2002