DALTON GRANT SECOND IN GERMAN HIGH JUMP

Athletics

Dalton Grant, competing to music in the specialist high jump event at Wuppertal in Germany last night recorded 2.30 metres to take second place behind the Pole, Artur Partyka, who jumped the same height. Grant's British rival, Steve Smith, was ninth with 2.20. In the women's event, Bulgaria's world champion, Stefka Kostadinova, won with 2.01m, a 1996 world best.