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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 January 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | City of Stoke AC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 47.02 (Birmingham, 2022) 400m hurdles : 48.47 (Prague, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seamus Derbyshire (born 27 January 2000) is a British track and field athlete who competes in the 400m hurdles. [1]
From Stockton Brook, in Staffordshire Moorlands, his running club is the City of Stoke Athletics Club in Stoke-on-Trent. [2] He attended Loughborough University. [3]
Derbyshire won a silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas, finishing behind Alastair Chalmers. [4] He won another silver medal at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships held in Borås. [5]
Derbyshire set a new personal best time for the 400m hurdles of 49.94 seconds in Oordegem, Belgium, in May 2022. [6] He made his senior Great Britain debut at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, in August 2022, in which qualified for the semi-finals of the 400m hurdles. [7] [8]
Derbyshire wore the British vest again the following year, finishing third in the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships First Division 400m hurdles race, in Chorzow, in June 2023. [9] That month in Geneva, he lowered his 400 metres hurdles personal best to 49.29 seconds. [10] In July 2023, he finished as runner-up at the UK National Championships 400m hurdles in Manchester, behind Alastair Chalmers. [11]
Derbyshire was selected for the British team for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn. [12] In Prague in June 2025, he moved to fifth on the British all-time list with a time of 48.47 for the 400 metres hurdles. [13] He finished second to Tyri Donovan at the London Athletics Meet on 19 July. [14] On 3 August, he placed third in the final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham. [15] [16] He was selected as part of the British team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, where he ran on the men's 400 metres hurdles. [17] He also ran at the championships in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay, helping the British team qualify for the final. [18] [19]
