- Dalton Grant
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Dalton Grant (born 8 April 1966) is a British high jumper, who has 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.[1] In 1997 at the World Championships Dalton opened with a world record jump of 2.32 for an opening height.
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.[2]
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 Assosciation for 2010-2011. Dalton has set up the Dalton Grant Academy in Trinidad and Tobago. He is also a patron of Mossbourne Academy.
Achievements
References
- IAAF profile for Dalton Grant
- Dalton Grant at Sporting-Heroes
- ^ IAAF top lists, high jump, indoor
- ^ Olympic Glory, timeline.org.uk. Retrieved on 23 June 2009.
European Indoor Champions in Men's High Jump 1970: Valentin Gavrilov (URS) • 1971: István Major (HUN) • 1972: István Major (HUN) • 1973: István Major (HUN) • 1974: Kestutis Sapka (URS) • 1975: Vladimír Malý (TCH) • 1976: Sergey Senyukov (URS) • 1977: Jacek Wszola (POL) • 1978: Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) • 1979: Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) • 1980: Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) • 1981: Roland Dalhäuser (SUI) • 1982: Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) • 1983: Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) • 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) • 1985: Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) • 1986: Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) • 1987: Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) • 1988: Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) • 1989: Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) • 1990: Artur Partyka (POL) • 1992: Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) • 1994: Dalton Grant (GBR) • 1996: Dragutin Topić (YUG) • 1998: Artur Partyka (POL) • 2000: Vyacheslav Voronin (RUS) • 2002: Staffan Strand (SWE) • 2005: Stefan Holm (SWE) • 2007: Stefan Holm (SWE) • 2009: Ivan Ukhov (RUS) • 2011: Ivan Ukhov (RUS)
1930: Johannes Viljoen (SAF) • 1934 – 1938: Edwin Thacker (SAF) • 1950: John Winter (AUS) • 1954: Emmanuel Ifeajuna (NGR) • 1958: Ernle Haisley (JAM) • 1962: Percy Hobson (AUS) • 1966 – 1970: Lawrence Peckham (AUS) • 1974: Gordon Windeyer (AUS) • 1978: Claude Ferragne (CAN) • 1982 – 1986: Milton Ottey (CAN) • 1990: Clarence Saunders (BER) • 1994: Tim Forsyth (AUS) • 1998: Dalton Grant (ENG) • 2002 – 2006: Mark Boswell (CAN) • 2010: Donald Thomas (BAH)
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