Alastair Chalmers

British athlete

  • 400 mH: 48.54 (2024)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Guernsey
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham 400 metres hurdles
Commonwealth Youth Games
Gold medal – first place 2017 Bahamas 400 metres hurdles
Island Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Jersey 4 x 100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2015 Jersey 4 x 400 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2017 Gotland 400 metres hurdles
Silver medal – second place 2017 Gotland 4 x 100 m relay
Representing  Great Britain
World U20 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Tampere 4 x 400 m

Alastair Chalmers (born 31 March 2000) is a British track and field hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles. He won Guernsey's first-ever Commonwealth Games track and field medal when he took bronze at the 2022 edition and he is a five-time British 400m hurdles champion.

Biography

Chalmers won gold in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas.[3]

He came sixth in the 400 metres hurdles and won a bronze medal as part of the 4x400 metres relay team at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland.[4]

Chalmers won his first British 400 metres hurdles title at the 2020 UK Athletics Championships in a time of 49.66 secs.[5]

He reached the semi-finals of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA.[6]

On 6 August 2022, Chalmers won the first-ever track and field medal for Guernsey in the history of the Commonwealth Games when he claimed bronze at the 22nd edition of the event in Birmingham, England.[7][8]

Chalmers won his fifth successive British 400 metres hurdles title at the UK Athletics Championships on 30 June 2024, setting a new personal best, and championship record, of 48.54 seconds to secure his place at the Paris Olympics.[9][10][11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Alastair CHALMERS". Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Alastair Chalmers". British Athletics. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Gold for Chalmers on brilliant final day for Guernsey in the Bahamas". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Chalmers in dreamland with more still to come". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Results list". British Athletics.
  6. ^ "Alastair Chalmers: Guernsey 400m hurdler makes World Championship semi-finals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Chalmers secures Guernsey's first athletics medal at the Commonwealth Games". ITV. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Alastair Chalmers creates athletics history for Guernsey". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  9. ^ "Ala earns Paris place despite a false start". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Guernsey's Alastair Chalmers achieves Olympic qualifying time after dramatic British Championships". ITV. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
  11. ^ "Chalmers overjoyed at dramatic Olympic qualification". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Guernsey's Alastair Chalmers qualifies for Paris Olympics". Island FM. Retrieved 1 July 2024.

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