Alastair Chalmers

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Alastair Chalmers
OLY
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (2000-03-31) 31 March 2000 (age 24) [1]
Guernsey [1]
Sport
Sport Track and field
Event Hurdling
College team Bath [2]
ClubGuernsey
Coached by Matthew Elias [2]
Achievements and titles
Personal best
  • 400 mH: 48.54 (2024)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Guernsey.svg  Guernsey
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 400 metres hurdles
Commonwealth Youth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Bahamas 400 metres hurdles
Island Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Jersey 4 x 100 m relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Jersey 4 x 400 m relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Gotland 400 metres hurdles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Guernsey 400 metres hurdles
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Guernsey 4 x 400 m relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Gotland 4 x 100 m relay
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
World U20 Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Tampere 4 x 400 m

Alastair Chalmers OLY (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.

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Athletics career

Chalmers was part of the gold medal-winning Guernsey 4x100 metres relay team at the 2015 Island Games in Jersey. [3] He also received a gold for the 4x400 metres relay having run in the heats but missing out on selection for the final.

He won gold in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2017 Island Games in Gotland, [4] before repeating the feat a month later at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas. [5]

Chalmers came sixth in the 400 metres hurdles and won a bronze medal as part of the Great Britain 4x400 metres relay team at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. [6]

He won his first British 400 metres hurdles title at the 2020 national championships in a time of 49.66 secs. [7] [8]

Chalmers reached the semi-finals of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA. [9]

On 6 August 2022, he 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. [10] [11] [12]

In July 2023, Chalmers took more than half a second off the championship record to win the 400m hurdles at the Island Games held in Guernsey. [13] [14] He went on to win a second gold of the event in the 4x400 metres relay with the Guernsey team setting another Games record in the process. [15]

At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, he set a new Guernsey 400 metres hurdles record but went out in the semi-finals. [16]

Chalmers won his fifth successive British 400 metres hurdles title at the 2024 British Athletics Championships on 30 June 2024, setting a new personal best, and championship record, of 48.54 seconds to put himself in line for a spot at the Paris Olympics. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] His place at the Games was confirmed on 5 July 2024, when Team GB announced their athletics team. [22] [23] Chalmers finished third in his heat to qualify for the semi-finals at the Games. [24] [25] [26] In the semi-finals he hit a hurdle around 150 metres from the finish line and fell to the track, and although he got up to complete the race, he finished eighth and did not progress to the final. [27] [28] [29]

He was named Outstanding Performer of the Year at the 2024 Guernsey Sports Commission Awards. [30]

Personal life

Chalmers gained a degree in Sports Performance from the University of Bath. [12] [23] His brother Cameron is also an athlete who has represented Guernsey and Great Britain in international competition. [31] [32]

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