Thirty-two year old Memnia Theodorou is the first Cypriot to ever take part in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and she is about to become the first woman from Cyprus to have sailed from the UK to Australia when the fleet arrives into Albany later this month. Theodorou  was only due to compete in the opening leg of the world’s longest ocean race when the fleet set sail from London to Rio de Janiero, Brazil, in August. However, once she got to Rio she signed up for Race 2, the Stormhoek Race to the Cape of Storms to South Africa in which her team GREAT Britain crossed the finish li