BARCELONA -- Peter Bromby's Olympic sailing challenge ended on an upbeat note after his best finish since the opening of the Star Class regatta at the Port Olimpic yesterday.

Bromby and Paul Fisher were 11th, to go with an 18th on Saturday and finished 19th overall out of 26 countries.

It was in the Star Class that Bermuda figured to have their best chance of a sailing medal, but Bromby and Fisher were barely able to cope with the flukey and light winds, which were prevalent throughout.

The class was won by American Mark Reynolds, who had two firsts, a second, two thirds and an 11th on Saturday after which he began celebrations, not bothering to race yesterday. The silver medal was won by American's Cup veteran Rod Davis of New Zealand and Canada's Ross McDonald, an International Race Week regular, finished strongly to capture the bronze.

Blythe Walker and Ray DeSilva, in the 470 Class, were poised at the weekend to give Bermuda their best finish but on Saturday they were 32nd and yesterday they placed 27th to lie 31st out of 37 countries with one contest left.

Elsewhere, Paula Lewin in the Europe Dinghy class is 21st out of 24 countries after 16th and 18th-place finishes on the weekend and Reid and Jay Kempe are 20th out of 22 after placing 20th in the fifth race on Saturday not starting the sixth later that afternoon.

Yesterday's race was postponed until today because of the lack of wind.

Suzanne Dunkley advanced to the individual dressage final yesterday after scoring 1,486 at the Real Club de Polo.

Dunkley, on mount Highness, is 14th out of 25 competitors with 24 more scheduled to be on parade today, hoping to advance to the final on Wednesday.

Dunkley had scores of 296, 299, 307, 286 and 298 from the five judges whom she will need to impress considerably more in the final if she is to harbour hopes of a finish in the top half of what will be a 32-competitor final.

Peter Bromby.