title: John Sheldrick
text: # John Sheldrick
  
  John William Sheldrick (born 1939), is a male former athlete who competed for England.
  
  ## Athletics career
  
  He represented England and won a bronze medal in the discus at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.
  
  He was a member of the Thames Valley Club.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  During the Games he met his future wife Prue O'Connor and stayed in Australia, therefore officially emigrating. Together they had five sons.
  
  