Sport in Short: Sailing
RHONE-POULENC yesterday became the last yacht in the British Steel Challenge round-the-world race to round Cape Horn after a two-day stopover in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, for emergency repairs.
BRITISH STEEL CHALLENGE ROUND-THE-WORLD RACE Second leg (Rio de Janeiro to Hobart): Positions (with miles to Hobart): 1 Nuclear Electric 4,587 miles; 2 Commercial Union 4,696; 3 Coopers & Lybrand 4,726; 4 Horbrau Lager 4,762; 5 British Steel II 4,784; 6 Heath Insured 4,790; 7 Pride of Teesside 4,811; 8 Group 4 4,869; 9 InterSpray 5,234; 10 Rhone Poulenc 5,639.
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