Kirsty's a kitesurfing record setter.(Features)

From: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: September 7, 2002 | Copyright information

A 24-YEAR-OLD woman has claimed the title of the first person to kitesurf across the Irish Sea to Wales - and raised thousands of pounds for sick children.

Kirsty Jones, who is the current women's UK kitesurfing champion, left Ireland yesterday morning and arrived at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire, west Wales, in just over five hours. She made the 70-mile trip balanced on a four-foot-long board and attached by a harness to a kite to pull her along.

Kirsty, from...

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