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French pair set Channel kitesurfing record carrying bread loaves

Kitesurfers Martin Marescaux and Théo Vanmarcke crossed from Portland in England to the French port of Cherbourg in four hours and thirty minutes, each carrying barrels of sourdough bread from a British bakery to be used in beermaking at the Pain de Minuit brewery in Lille.

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Two kitesurfers from France are claiming two world firsts after crossing the English Channel, carrying barrels of bread on their backs, reports BBC News.

Martin Marescaux, of Pain de Minuit brewery in Lille, and Theo Vanmarcke crossed from Portland, Dorset, to Cherbourg on Wednesday.

The men were carrying 36 dry loaves from a Dorset bakers which will be used for making blonde ale.

The say they are the first to cross that part of the Channel by kitesurf and the first to make a delivery across the world's busiest shipping channel.

The men set a time of 4hrs 30mins, which they believe is a first - and therefore a world record - for that route.

Mr Marescaux said: "We are tired but we are happy.

"We will make beer with the bread we collected and in eight weeks the beer will be ready."

Read more of this report from BBC News.