Alastair Chalmers
- 400 mH: 48.54 (2024)
Men's athletics | ||
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Representing ![]() | ||
Commonwealth Games | ||
![]() | 2022 Birmingham | 400 metres hurdles |
Commonwealth Youth Games | ||
![]() | 2017 Bahamas | 400 metres hurdles |
Island Games | ||
![]() | 2015 Jersey | 4 x 100 m relay |
![]() | 2015 Jersey | 4 x 400 m relay |
![]() | 2017 Gotland | 400 metres hurdles |
![]() | 2017 Gotland | 4 x 100 m relay |
Representing ![]() | ||
World U20 Championships | ||
![]() | 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
- ^ a b "Alastair CHALMERS". Birmingham 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ a b "Alastair Chalmers". British Athletics. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "Gold for Chalmers on brilliant final day for Guernsey in the Bahamas". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Chalmers in dreamland with more still to come". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Results list". British Athletics.
- ^ "Alastair Chalmers: Guernsey 400m hurdler makes World Championship semi-finals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Chalmers secures Guernsey's first athletics medal at the Commonwealth Games". ITV. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Alastair Chalmers creates athletics history for Guernsey". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Ala earns Paris place despite a false start". Guernsey Press. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Guernsey's Alastair Chalmers achieves Olympic qualifying time after dramatic British Championships". ITV. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
- ^ "Chalmers overjoyed at dramatic Olympic qualification". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Guernsey's Alastair Chalmers qualifies for Paris Olympics". Island FM. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
External links
- Alastair Chalmers at World Athletics
- Alastair Chalmers at British Athletics
- Alastair Chalmers at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Alastair Chalmers on X
- v
- t
- e
- 2007: Dale Garland
- 2008: Richard Yates
- 2009-10: Dai Greene
- 2011: Nathan Woodward
- 2012-13: Dai Greene
- 2014-15: Niall Flannery
- 2016: Sebastian Rodger
- 2017: Jack Green
- 2018: Dai Greene
- 2019: Jacob Paul
- 2020-24: Alastair Chalmers