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A-Gas sponsors champion windsurfer

Noelle-FinchUK: Refrigerant supplier A-Gas is sponsoring former world and European U17 champion windsurfer Noelle Finch.

Now 19, the Bristol-based windsurfer won silver for Great Britain at the RS:X Windsurfing European in France in 2013 and was the top-performing Brit in a fleet of 44 under-19 girls. In October last year she was selected for the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Podium Potential squad and is currently training with the British sailing team.

In May this year she won the RYA Olympic Series in the RS:X 8.5m sail class and has just returned from the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Spain, where she seas the highest-placed female U21 GB RS:X sailor.

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