Sport in Short: Sailing

PETER BLAKE and Robin Knox-Johnston broke the 400 miles in a day barrier as they rounded the Cape of Good Hope, with 414.6 miles for a 24-hour average of 17 knots. They are over four days ahead of schedule in their attempt to sail the catamaran, Enza, round the world in 80 days.

BRITISH STEEL CHALLENGE Third leg (Hobart to Capetown): Positions with miles to finish as estimated by BT: 1 Group 4 4,127; 2 Commercial Union 4,146; 3 Nuclear Electric 4,157; 4 Rhone-Poulenc 4,158; 5 Coopers and Lybrand 4,167; 6 Heath Insured 4,177; 7 Hofbrau 4,180; 8 British Steel II 4,189; 9 Interspray 4,217; 10 Pride of Teesside 4,224.