{"id":11174,"date":"2025-02-26T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alastair-chalmers-aiming-for-european-indoor-championships\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:46:51","slug":"alastair-chalmers-aiming-for-european-indoor-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/alastair-chalmers-aiming-for-european-indoor-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Chalmers aiming for European Indoor Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chalmers crashed out of the Olympic Games in Paris last summer when he fell after hitting a hurdle at the semi-final stage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year he is focusing on defending his British 400m hurdles title for a sixth successive year before heading to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And he says his race in Birmingham, where he lost to winner Alex Haydock-Wilson and runner-up Josh Faulds, was the perfect way to start his season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I live for these occasions of high pressure situations, which is great, but today I just didn&#8217;t get it right,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But that&#8217;s the art of 400m running. Hopefully I can bounce back, go to the Europeans, run a good time with these boys in the mix and 4x400m and go on to outdoors over the hurdles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The big goal this year is still the world outdoors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cgm1941pylyo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalmers crashed out of the Olympic Games in Paris last summer when he fell after hitting a hurdle at the semi-final stage. This year he is focusing on defending his British 400m hurdles title for a sixth successive year before heading to the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September. And he says his race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11176,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions\/11176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}