Sport in Short: Sailing

BRITISH STEEL CHALLENGE Third leg (Hobart to Cape Town): 1 Group 4 1,813 miles to go; 2 Nuclear Electric 1,943; 3 Commercial Union 1,978; 4 Hofbrau Lager 1,978; 5 Rhone Poulenc 1,988; 6 British Steel II 2,000; 7 Coopers & Lybrand 2,028; 8 Heath Insured 2,036; 9 InterSpray 2,104; 10 Pride of Teesside 2,273.

VENDEE GLOBE SOLO ROUND-THE-WORLD RACE Leading positions: 1 A Gautier (Fr) Bagages Superior 1,317 miles from finish at Sables D'Olonne, Fr; 2 P Poupon (Fr) Fleury-Michon 1,980; 3 J-L van den Heede (Fr) Sofap-Helvim 2,285.