Ian Epton

{{short description|Zambian wrestler}}

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{{MedalSport | Men's Wrestling}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 1954 Vancouver | Bantamweight}}

{{MedalCountry | {{flag|South Africa|1928}} }}

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{{MedalGold| 1958 Cardiff | Flyweight}}

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Ian Epton is a former wrestler from Zambia, which was then the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia.

He competed at the 1954 British Empire Games, and won a bronze medal for wrestling in the Men's Bantamweight class.Phiri, Stepehen (2014) "[http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.php/sports/item/6604-zambias-medal-hunt-starts?tmpl=component&print=1 Zambia’s medal hunt starts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812212904/http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.php/sports/item/6604-zambias-medal-hunt-starts?tmpl=component&print=1 |date=12 August 2014 }}", Zambia Daily Mail . Retrieved 10 August 2014 In the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal for South Africa in the flyweight category.Horizon: The Magazine of the Rhodesian Selection Trust Group of Companies, Volume 7, p. 36