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Adam, 14, in kitesurf feat over Channel

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A 14- year- old boy has become the youngest person to kitesurf across the English Channel.

Adam Farrington faced 25mph winds during the 69-mile journey between Poole in Dorset and the French port of Cherbourg, which took 5hr 19min.

Adam, of Ferndown, Dorset, said: “We had near misses with ships. The waves were overhead, I wiped out a dozen times.”

The Guinness World Records has no record for the youngest kitesurfer to cross. Richard Branson is the oldest, then aged 61.

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INTREPID Adam Farrington

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