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Dalton Grant

Personal information
Born	(1966-04-08) 8 April 1966 (age 58) Hackney, Greater London, England
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Club	Haringey AC, London
Medal record Athletics Representing  England Commonwealth Games Silver 1990 Auckland high jump Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur high jump

Dalton Grant (born 8 April 1966) is a former high jumper.

Athletics career

Grant won a total number of four national titles for Great Britain (AAA Championships) in the men's high jump event. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. He has a personal indoor best of 2.37 metres.

Grant appeared at five consecutive Commonwealth Games. He represented England in the high jump, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later he won a silver medal for England, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand which was followed by a third Games appearance for England, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He finally won a gold medal at the 1998 Games and competed in the high jump for the fifth successive Games in 2002.

Biography

Grant was born in Hackney to parents from Jamaica and lived in Brooke Road, Upper Clapton. He went to Hackney Downs School where he started to high jump. He also represented Hackney in the London Youth Games in athletics.

He was later inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame in 2011.

Personal life

He was a board director of the London 2012 Olympic bid team and he was also a captain of the Great Britain & NI team. Grant was appointed president of the South of England Athletics Association for 2010–2011. Dalton has set up the Dalton Grant Academy in Trinidad and Tobago. He is also a patron of Mossbourne Academy.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Great Britain and  England
1985	European Junior Championships	Cottbus, East Germany	6th	High jump	2.18 m
1986	Commonwealth Games	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	7th	High jump	2.10 m
1987	European Indoor Championships	Liévin, France	7th	High jump	2.27 m
	World Indoor Championships	Indianapolis, United States	8th	High jump	2.28 m
1988	European Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	11th	High jump	2.24 m
	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	7th	High jump	2.31 m
1989	European Indoor Championships	The Hague, Netherlands	2nd	High jump	2.33 m
	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th	High jump	2.35 m
	World Cup	Barcelona, Spain	2nd	High jump	2.31 m
1990	Commonwealth Games	Auckland, New Zealand	2nd	High jump	2.34 m
	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	7th	High jump	2.24 m
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	4th	High jump	2.31 m
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	4th	High jump	2.36 m
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	29th (q)	High jump	2.15 m
1993	World Indoor Championships	Toronto, Canada	4th	High jump	2.34 m
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	14th (q)	High jump	2.25 m
1994	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	1st	High jump	2.37 m
	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	9th	High jump	2.25 m
	Commonwealth Games	Victoria, Canada	5th	High jump	2.28 m
1995	World Indoor Championships	Barcelona, Spain	8th	High jump	2.28 m
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	14th (q)	High jump	2.27 m
1996	European Indoor Championships	Stockholm, Sweden	19th (q)	High jump	2.15 m
	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	19th (q)	High jump	2.26 m
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	10th	High jump	2.25 m
	World Championships	Athens, Greece	4th	High jump	2.32 m
1998	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	2nd	High jump	2.34 m
	Commonwealth Games	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1st	High jump	2.31 m
2002	Commonwealth Games	Manchester, United Kingdom	6th	High jump	2.15 m
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	–	High jump	NM
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	12th (q)	High jump	2.20 m

See also

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