Chalmers on track with UK's best
A NEW weekend, a new triumph. For Cameron Chalmers, athletics and quality performance is coming all too easy at the moment.
After a succession of personal bests, a Southern Area Championship, a national indoors title at under-20 level and then the British Universities indoor 400m championship, Chalmers returned to Sheffield at the weekend for his first tilt at the full British Championships and the good news kept getting better for the Old Elizabethan.
There was to be no dream first full national title, but the 19-year-old ran superbly to qualify for the final where he took silver, just five-hundredths behind the gold medallist and individual runner-up over the same distance at the European indoors in Gothenburg two years ago, Nigel Levine, who was also part of Great Britain's London 2012 Olympic Games team.
In the first round Chalmers posted 48.69 in qualifying comfortably in second spot behind Liverpool's Alex Boyce, who the Guernseyman beat on the dip in the final.
The semi was a more physical affair in which Chalmers and GB international Luke Lennon-Ford were tangled in the race for second place behind Owen Richardson.
On the clock the two were separated by one-hundredth of a second and Lennon-Ford was initially disqualified before later being reinstated on appeal which forced Chalmers into third.
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