Jemima Lines has hailed a "pivotal moment" in her sport after she became the first woman to be selected for the British America's Cup team in 90 years.

Jemima Lines has hailed a "pivotal moment" in her sport after she became the first British woman to be selected for an America's Cup team in 90 years. The 29-year-old has been named in the GB1 team for next year's event, which will be the first edition in its 175-year history to require at least one woman in each five-person crew. Phyllis Sopwith was the last British woman to race aboard a British America's Cup challenger, making appearances in 1934 and 1937. "It is incredible, what a moment in history and it is just so exciting, I think it is a pivotal moment for our sport really. "It honestly is a massive honour and quite surreal. If you had told me that growing up I wouldn't have believed it." Lines is a former kitefoiler on the British Sailing Team and was Team GB's back-up to eventual gold medallist Ellie Aldridge at the Paris 2024 Olympics. She has a degree in mechanical engineering, and has previously worked as a guide at Everest basecamp, scaled mountain summits and set altitude kite surfing records. Her sense of adventure, she says, came from her late father, Ralph Crathorne, a former British special forces soldier who died in an accident on Ben Nevis earlier this year.