Sporting Digest: Sailing

PIERRE FEHLMANN, of France, in Merit Cup won the first leg of the Round Europe Race from La Rochelle to Gijon, Spain, beating New Zealand's Grant Dalton in Endeavour by 1min 3sec.

INTERNATIONAL 505 EUROPEAN CUP (Riva, It) Second round: 1 P Brotherton and B Masterman (GB); 2 I Barker and T Hancock (GB); 3 H Cisneros and N Fulcher (GB); 4 M Upton-Brown and N Vooght (GB).