John Sherwood (born 4 June 1945 in Selby, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a male retired British athlete.

[1] His time was 49.03 seconds, and he was third behind fellow British athlete David Hemery, who took gold, and German Gerhard Hennige (silver).

The commentator, David Coleman, who in his great excitement after Hemery won, made the rather unfortunate remark "who cares who's third - it doesn't matter!"

He studied at the Loughborough College of Education and is married to Sheila Sherwood, who won a silver medal at the same Olympics in the long jump.

After 40 years of teaching PE, 37 of those at Firth Park Community Arts College, Sheffield, John retired in 2006 after a finale school sports day on 12 July at the Don Valley Stadium which was closed with an address from Lord Coe.