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 (

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) 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

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. He represented

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in the high jump, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Four years later he won a silver medal for

, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in

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, New Zealand which was followed by a third Games appearance for

, at the

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, 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,

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. He went to

Hackney Downs School Hackney Downs School was an 11–16 boys, community comprehensive secondary school in Lower Clapton, Greater London, England. It was established in 1876 and closed in 1995. It has been replaced by the Mossbourne Community Academy. History ...

where he started to high jump. He also represented Hackney in the

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in athletics.http://www.londonyouthgames.org/page.asp?section=23§ionTitle=Hall+of+Fame Hall of Fame retrieved 19 February 2013 He was later inducted into the

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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.

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