Surfer wakes from coma

A KITESURFER who sustained multiple injuries when a freak gust of wind dragged him ashore has woken from a coma.

Jan Honza Stastny, who is in his 20s and originally from the Czech Republic, was caught by the gust while kitesurfing in Courtmacsherry Bay on July 16.

Onlookers watched him fight with his controls as he was lifted up to nine metres in the air and flung inland.