Alastair Chalmers

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Alastair Chalmers
OLY
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (2000-03-31) 31 March 2000 (age 26)[1]
Guernsey[1]
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event
Hurdling
College teamBath[2]
ClubGuernsey
Coached byMatthew Elias[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal best
  • 400 mH: 48.30 (2025)
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 × 100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2015 Jersey 4 × 400 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2017 Gotland 400 metres hurdles
Gold medal – first place 2023 Guernsey 400 metres hurdles
Gold medal – first place 2023 Guernsey 4 × 400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2017 Gotland 4 × 100 m relay
Representing  Great Britain
European Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Apeldoorn Mixed 4 × 400 m relay
World U20 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Tampere 4 × 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 400 m hurdles champion.

Athletics career

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Chalmers was part of the gold medal-winning Guernsey 4 × 100 metres relay team at the 2015 Island Games in Jersey.[3] He also received a gold for the 4 × 400 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 4 × 400 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 400 m hurdles at the Island Games held in Guernsey.[13][14] He went on to win a second gold of the event in the 4 × 400 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]

Chalmers won the bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 2025 British Indoor Athletics Championships, setting a new personal best of 46.84 secs in the semi-finals.[31] He was subsequently selected for the Great Britain 4 × 400 metres relay squad to take part in the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[32] Chalmers won a bronze medal as part of the British team in the mixed relay on the first day of the competition.[33][34]

On 8 June 2025, Chalmers set a new 400 metres hurdles personal best, recording 48.30 secs to take first place at the Weltklasse Rehlingen in Germany.[35][36]

At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, he reached the semi-finals,[37] but came sixth in a time of 49.49 secs and subsequently failed to qualify for the final.[38]

Personal life

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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.[39][40]

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