|
|
 |
| |
|
Home > Olympics > Bronze Medalists > John Sherwood
John Sherwood
The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every four years which comprises of summer and winter games. Though the first ancient games were held in 776 B.C, the modern games started from 1896 and were held every four years except in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to the World Wars. The unity of the 5 continents is shown on the Olympic flag by five colorful intertwined rings of red, blue, green, yellow, and black, created by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to represent atleast one color of the participating country’s national flag.
John Sherwood was born on the 4th of June 1945 in Selby, North Yorkshire, England. He was a British track and field athlete, who won the bronze medal in the Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico in 1968 for the 400 meter hurdles. His time was 49.03 seconds, and he was third behind fellow British athlete David Hemery, who took the Gold and the German, Gerhard Hennige who took the Silver medal.
He also won a silver medal in the European Athletics Championships in 1969 and a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games in 1970. Prior to this period he had studied at the then Loughborough College of Education. He is married to Sheila Sherwood, who won a silver medal at the same Olymics in the long jump. In his closing address in the successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Lord Sebastien Coe described how as a youngster in Sheffield in 1968, John and Sheila Sherwood had inspired him to pursue his successful career in track athletics.
Back to Bronze Medalists
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|