Sport in Short: Sailing

PETER BLAKE and Robin Knox-Johnston are still ahead of schedule to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days in ENZA. In the 24 hours ending at 5.52am yesterday they covered 298 miles averaging 12.26 knots, bringing their total travelled to 4,651 miles at an average speed of 13.84 knots.

BRITISH STEEL CHALLENGE Third Leg (Hobart to Capetown): Positions (with miles to the finish, as estimated by BT): 1 Commercial Union 5,361; 2 Nuclear Electric 5,363; 3 Coopers & Lybrand 5,373; 4 Rhone-Poulenc 5,378; 5= Heath Insured, Group 4 5,379; 7 Hofbrau, 5,386; 8 Pride of Teesside 5,393; 9 British Steel II 5,408; 10 Interspray 5,441.