Ian Bowditch fenced team épée for Australia at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He competed in fencing while a student at Melbourne University, where he studied law. He and his brother, Bruce, both were awarded Full Blues as fencers. After serving in the Australian Air Force, Ian Bowditch worked for the Crown Solicitors Office in Brisbane, and continued to compete in fencing at Brisbane University. After the Tokyo Olympics he was a junior at a Country Legal Practice in Rochester, but soon left to work for the Australian government in Nauru, where he was a legal officer and helped draft the constitution for the country before their independence. He was married in Nauru but he and his wife returned to Australia in 1970, where he started a small legal practice in Elsternwick. He also lectured at the Footscray Institute of Technology. He joined the bar in November 1983, and stayed at the bar until 2003, when illness forced him to stop practicing.
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