Butchart won a bronze medal at the 2017 European Cross Country Championships. Butchart was scheduled to compete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, but later had to withdraw due to a broken foot. Butchart led the British team at the 2019 European Cross Country Championships. He qualified for the final at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, after Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen was disqualified in the semi finals. In February 2021, Butchart was warned by British Athletics for criticising his coach on social media in September 2019. In March 2021, he reached the final in the men's 3000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships held in Toruń, Poland.