THE son of millionaire Worcester Rugby Club benefactor Cecil Duckworth has triumphed in a fitness centre's millennium challenge.

Mark Duckworth has overcome disability to win £250 for the under-50s activate category and a further £500 as the overall winner in the One-on-One organised competition.

The 35-year-old trains with an instructor and set a goal of competing in the mixed pairs x-training competition and won the intermediate category.

He is donating £500 to the Acorns Trust.

"He has worked terrifically hard and goes three times a week," said his proud dad.

"It is a very significant achievement."

Also among the winners was 53-year-old Janet Parker, a part-time teacher from Rushwick, who battled back from a snapped achilles tendon in 1999 to win the British Indoor Rowing Championships in Reading for the lightweight 50-54 category.

Mrs Parker, who trains at One-on-One in Bromyard, Road, St John's, even trained and took place in a competition while in plaster.

"The challenge I put down was to row a million metres and I did it in eight months," she said.

"I train six times a week and sometimes twice a day."

Another winner was Anna Bailey from Malvern who won the under-50 female achievement category as well as the overall winner prize.

Her efforts were particularly notable because she has only been a member of a gym for less than 12 months but won the British Indoor Rowing Championships in the heavyweight 45-49 category.

She also won a bronze medal in the world championships.

"The millennium challenge was set up to provide existing members with a major incentive to achieve certain fitness goals in the millennium," said Stuart Leng from One-to-One.

Three categories were identified - activate, for overcoming injury or disability, appearance, a change in weight or muscle definition and achievement in a fitness event.

Competitors were able to enter the challenge at any point between October 1999 and October 2000.

One-on-One also has centres in Evesham and Malvern.