Ian William Richards (born April 12, 1948 in Stockport, Cheshire) is a racewalker from England, who represented Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.
[3] At the 2013 World Masters Athletics Championships in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Richards set a world record in the M65 5,000 meter racewalk (the event for men aged 65–69 years), with a time of 24:13.10,[4] and was second in the M65 10,000 meter racewalk.
[5] Richards won the 5,000 meter racewalk at the 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships.
[6] He competed at European and World Masters Championships in 2017 (at Aarhus and Daegue) and 2018 (at Alicante and Malaga).
[6] In 2019, Richards broke the M70 world record (the record for men aged 70–74 years) in the 3,000 meter racewalk at the World Masters Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.