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| Born | 27 January 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400m hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 47.33 (Coventry, 2022) 400m hurdles : 49.29 (Geneva, 2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 44.94 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]
He 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. [8] That month in Geneva, he lowered his 400 metres hurdles personal best to 49.29 seconds. [9] In July 2023, he finished as runner-up at the UK National Championships 400m hurdles in Manchester, behind Alastair Chalmers. [10]
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