Dalton Grant
Dalton Grant ( born April 8, 1966 in London) is a former British high jumper, the end of 1980 and during the 1990 years was one of the world leaders.
Career
Until 1993
Grant began his career with a seventh place and 2.10 m at the Commonwealth Games in 1986 in Edinburgh. In 1987, he was 2.27 m in seventh at the IAAF European Indoor Championships in Liévin. At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis two weeks later he won with 2.28 m in eighth place. According to an eleventh place with 2.24 m at the European Indoor Championships in 1988 in Budapest, he was at the Olympic Games in Seoul in seventh with 2.31 m.
His first medal won Grant at the European Indoor Championships in 1989 in The Hague, as he against Dietmar Mögenburg defeated by 2.33 m in regular jumping and three failed attempts at 2.35m in the jump and won silver. At the World Indoor Championships in Budapest Javier Sotomayor won with indoor world record of 2.43 m. Behind Sotomayor crossed three jumpers 2.35m: Mögenburg won silver, the Swede Patrik Sjöberg received bronze, and Grant was only fourth.
From late January to early February 1990 found the Commonwealth Games held in Auckland. Won the high jump Clarence Saunders from Bermuda with 2.36 m in front of Grant, who crossed 2.34 m. Four weeks later, Grant was seventh with 2.24 m at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. In the summer at the European Athletics Championships in Split Grant was fourth with 2.31 meters.
1991 Grant traveled with a height of 2.20 m to the Athletics European Cup, which he won with 2.30m. At the World Athletics Championships 1991 in Tokyo, he rose 2.31 meters, one centimeter one on his season best. He rose to a new British record of 2.36 meters but was only fourth behind Charles Austin, Sotomayor and Hollis Conway. The British record was in 1992 by Steve Smith improves to 2.37 m.
At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Grant failed in qualifying. In 1993 he crossed 2.34 m at the European Indoor Championships in Toronto and was fourth behind Sotomayor, Sjöberg and Smith.
From 1994
At the European Indoor Championships in 1994 in Paris-Bercy Grant succeeded the highest jump of his career. He won gold with 2.37 m, after he had played poker at 2.35 m. The Frenchman Jean -Charles Gicquel had taken 2.35 m, whereupon Grant renounced his outstanding experiments which he used at 2.37 m. At the European Championships in Helsinki Grant and Gicquel were then together with 2.25 m Ninth. Two and a half weeks after the European Championship final took the High Jump Final of the Commonwealth Games held in Victoria. Steve Smith and the Australian Tim Forsyth fought a thrilling duel for gold and silver with four rounds in the jump, which Forsyth ultimately won. Grant was fifth with 2.28 m.
After an eighth place with 2.28 m at the World Indoor Championships in 1995, the failure in qualifying in Atlanta and a tenth place with 2.25 meters traveled Grant at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg and the Olympics at the 1996 World Indoor Championships in 1997 almost without preparation to the 1997 World Championships in Athens. In qualifying, he increased his Saisonbesthöhe to 2.28 m, jumped in the finals, the initial height of 2.32 m in the first attempt, but failed three times at 2.35 m. It won Javier Sotomayor Artur Partyka with 2.37 m before and Forsyth, Dalton Grant was fourth.
At the European Championships 1998 in Budapest traveled Grant with a personal best of 2.28m. With 2.34 m he won silver behind Artur Partyka. A month later, Grant won at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur with 2.31 m.
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games Grant tried after many injuries again made a comeback and was 2.15 m in sixth.
Dalton Grant is 1,86 m tall and weighed 76 kg in his playing days. He had often omit the skill and the luck in important competitions, the correct heights during his career and to fight for good rankings by a small number of failed attempts. So he mastered at the world championships 1997, then the highest initial mark of 2.32 m.