The warm and friendly Hackney-born Dalton Grant  is one of Great Britain’s finest high-jumpers. Dalton competed at the Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta Olympic Games. He is a European Championships and Commonwealth Games Gold medallist and in 2008 Dalton equalled the world veteran record at Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.

His personal best jump was 2.36 metres, achieved at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. He has a personal indoor best of 2.37 metres.

Likeable and hugely talented, Dalton set nine successive national records between 1988 and 1991, becoming the first Briton to be ranked in the world's top 10 since Alan Paterson in 1950. Having narrowly missed a medal at the Seoul Olympics, he earned his greatest success a decade later taking the Commonwealth title in Kuala Lumpur and earning a European outdoor silver medal to add to the European indoor goals he had won in 1994.

Dalton is a character that likes to inspire and share his knowledge with the next generation of sporting talent. Not only does he coach up and coming high jumpers, he also transfers his skills to work with sprinters, footballers and badminton players. He is also putting his knowledge and energies into long-term development of upcoming athletes with The Dalton Grant Academy, which has bases in both the East End of London and in Trinidad and Tobago, and has already secured £4m in investment. His bursary programme offers a substantial programme of education, support services including sports education, health and nutrition and funding for outstanding student athletes and is being introduced into schools within the M25 motorway.

Not content with all of this,  Dalton has been keeping himself fit and healthy with the help of appearances on TV shows such as BBC1’s ‘Celebrity Total Wipeout’, where he set his name in the record books, and this incredible level of fitness might even produce a big surprise in Olympic year, when Dalton will be 46 years of age. Now wouldn’t THAT be a story??