Seamus Derbyshire
British athlete (born 2000)
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Seamus Derbyshire (born 27 January 2000) is a British track and field athlete who competes in the 400m hurdles.[1]
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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 bests | 400m: 47.02 (Birmingham, 2022) 400m hurdles : 48.47 (Prague, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
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]
Career
Junior career
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]
Senior career
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 Chorzów, 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]
Derbyshire ran 47.12 seconds in the final to win bronze in the 400 metres at the 2026 British Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham on 15 February 2026.[20] In May, he ran at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay in Gaborone, Botswana.[21][22] On 21 June, he finished fourth in the 400 metres hurdles final at the 2026 UK Athletics Championships.[23] He was selected to represent England at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[24]