• Downes fought Australia’s Jeff Fenech for the World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title in Melbourne in August 1988, losing by a technical knockout in five rounds.
• Victor Houston has 15 CARIFTA Games medals, six of them gold.
• Oliver Nicholas played for the national basketball team from 1981 to 1988.
• Victor Houston will turn 45 on Sunday.
• On the table tennis boards, Rudder won every major national junior title across the various age groups, along with B Class and Intermediate crowns.
• Oliver Nicholas will celebrate his 57th birthday on Sunday.
Sir Everton Weekes is inching towards 94.
(FP)
