York rowers Caroline Jones of York City Rowing Club and Vicki Johnson of St Peter's School enjoyed success at the National Rowing Championships of Great Britain.

They won the Bronze Medal in Women's Junior Under 18 Double Sculls in a time of 8min 31 seconds over the 2000metre course at the National Watersports Centre, Nottingham.

Jones and Johnson also competed in the under 18 Single Sculls event.

Jones narrowly missed out on a place in the final and Johnson reached the 6 lane final.

Unfortunately she suffered from stiffness in her arm and was unable to race the second half of the course.

These girls had recently pleased their coaches Dave Wilde and John Ward by gaining two of the 16 places in the Final Trials to select crews to represent Great Britain at this years international regattas, both just missing out on selection for the crews.

Earlier in the season the two girls had raced at Henley Women's Regatta in a Women's Junior quadruple scull with Morven and Freya Porteous who also sculled at the National Championships for York City, along with Loretta Williams and George Scott.

With the high standard of crews the other City scullers struggled to maintain the pace to compete for medals.

Ed Gill and Dan Haigh of St Peter's School competed in the men's under 18 sculls with Gill missing out on a place in the final by a small margin in his first major regatta in a sculling boat.

York crews are now preparing for St Neots and Peterborough Regattas where the club usually send a large contingent.

Updated: 10:02 Wednesday, July 25, 2001