CLYDE BEST

Widely considered as the greatest football player Bermuda has ever produced. From a teenager playing first with Ireland Rangers and later with Somerset, he left Bermuda as a 17-year-old to join English First Division side West Ham, becoming one of the first black players to break into the top flight of British football.

Playing alongside England World Cup heroes Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst, he became a huge favourite at Upton Park scoring 47 goals during his time with the club.

He later played in Holland and in the North American Soccer League, returning to Bermuda in the 1990s and later taking over the reins as national coach.

THE BIG BLUE MACHINE

WOMEN'S SOFTBALL TEAM

One the most successful teams to have represented Bermuda in any sport.

During the 1970s, the Big Blue Machine - nicknamed after Cincinnati's baseball team, the Big Red Machine - ruled Caribbean softball.

Their greatest achievement was bringing home a gold medal from the 1978 CAC Games, a tournament they were almost prevented from attending because of a lack of funds.

Coach of that team was Winston J.R.Jones, captain Rosalind Simmons and the rest of the squad: Olivette Armstrong, Angela Bean, Charlene Cann, Beverly Clarke, June Durrant, Alva Forbes, Sheila Gardner, Rose Hart, Ellen-Kate Horton, Lauren Perinchief, Debbie Saltus, Joanne Smith, Donna Trott, LuVern Ward, Roseann Williams and Veronica Zuill.

FRANCIS (GOOSE) GOSLING

Arguably the greatest diver in Bermuda history, Gosling won every national championship in which he competed from 1939 to 1950.

Having set his sights on the 1940 Olympics, he was denied that year by the Second World War and again in 1944, but finally achieved his ambition when the Games resumed in 1948 in London where he placed tenth.

That would remain as the best performance by a Bermudian at the Olympics until 1964 and still ranks as one of the Island's highest showings.

W.F (CHUMMY) HAYWARD

Perhaps remembered best as an administrator, philanthropist and the driving force behind Bermuda ‘s Olympic quest, although as a young man he was no slouch as an all-round sportsman, competing in baseball, boxing, cricket, diving, soccer, rugby, swimming and tennis.

Hayward represented Bermuda at the 1936 Olympics as a swimmer, and went on to be hugely influential in the formation and running of the Bermuda Olympic Committee, vowing to attend every Olympic Games he could while alive.

In 1996 his contributions to sport were recognised by the International Olympic Committee at the IOC's Centennial celebrations.

RANDY HORTON

While Clyde Best made his mark in the English League, his former Trojans team-mate Horton was making a similar impact on the other side of the Atlantic.

As a member of the New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League, he was voted Rookie of the Year and a season later the league's Most Valuable Player - the first player to win those awards in successive seasons. He led the NASL in scoring in 1972, turned down an offer from England's Queens Park Rangers and later transferred to the Washington Diplomats after being replaced at Cosmos by none other than Pele.

In cricket, he became one of Cup Match's youngest skippers, taking charge of Somerset at the age of 23 and continued to play in the summer classic for several years.

ALMA (CHAMP) HUNT

Without doubt the greatest cricketer Bermuda has ever produced, and considered among the best in the entire Caribbean region. After successful trials in the West Indies in 1933, in which he snapped up eight wickets for 46 runs and scored 101 - 46 more than the next best player - he was amazingly overlooked for Test selection, authorities arguing that Bermuda was not a member of the West Indies Cricket Board.

Earlier in his career, he had excelled in local league cricket and Cup Match and went on to enjoy a hugely successful career in Scotland where he was appointed professional at Aberdeenshire.

He later returned to Bermuda to become president of Bermuda Cricket Board of Control.

DEBBIE JONES HUNTER

Sprinter extraordinaire, Debbie Jones was the golden girl of athletics in the 1970s, dominating the Carifta Games like no other before her.

She won numerous medals, smashed countless records at both Carifta and the CAC Games, but suffered a heart-breaking injury in a 100 metres qualifying heat at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and was unable to compete any further. Four years later her Olympic dream was shattered again by Bermuda's boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games.

As a member of the famed Tennessee Tigerbelles she helped set a world record in the 4x200 metres relay at Louisville, Kentucky in 1978.

CLARENCE (TUPPENCE) PARFITT

Believed by many to be the greatest bowler in Cup Match history, Parfitt rewrote the record books when he starred for St. George's from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s.

In a spectacular Cup Match debut in 1965 he bamboozled the opposition bats, snapping up seven for 20 in the first innings and eight for 23 in the second. In 1976 he nearly bowled out the entire Somerset team, taking nine for 47 in the first innings.

Like Champ Hunt before him, Parfitt would depart for Scotland where his glorious career continued, culminating with an appearance at Lord's for Stenhousemuir against the MCC. On cricket's most famous ground, he returned figures of nine for 128.

CLARENCE (NICKY) SAUNDERS

High jump champion at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand in 1990, Saunders became the first Bermudian ever to win gold at a major Games.

His winning leap of 2.36 metres still stands today as the Commonwealth Games record.

Also a Carifta gold and silver medallist, he remains one of only five Bermudians to have competed in three Olympic Games.

CALVIN (BUMMY) SYMONDS

A magnificent football and cricket player, Symonds has been described as the best captain the Island has ever seen.

As a cricketer, he led St. George's to success in Cup Match throughout the 1960s, and as a footballer he became the second player to venture to England as a professional, although as a striker for Rochdale his first team appearances were limited.

The St. George's Cup Match team he skippered from 1961 to the early ‘70s is believed by many to be the best in the summer classic's long history.