Ian Malcolm Williams (born 23 September 1963 inCanberra,Australian Capital Territory)^[2] is an Australian former rugby union player who played as wing. He played for bothAustralia andJapan. He is nicknamed Peabody.

Ian Malcolm Williams was born on 23 September 1963, inCanberra.^[2] His father is a former lecturer ingeology at theAustralian National University and his mother is a former English teacher atCanberra High School.^[2] In 1966, Williams moved to theUnited States of America with his family, after his father spent a sabbatical year, first atStanford University for seven months and then inWashington D.C. for four months, before returning toCanberra.^[2] Two years later,Stanford University offered Williams’ father a professorship, and in 1969 Williams returned toCalifornia to live.^[2]

Williams attendeded Epping Boys High School and Cranbrook School in Sydney. Before playing rugby, he played for Australia Under 19 baseball team and won the Combined Associated Schools 100 metres sprint crown with a time of 10.8 seconds. He played for theAustralian Schoolboys rugby union team, and was the sprint champion of Combined Associated Schools. He then started his senior career inEastwood.His debut against another country was in a match againstFiji, playing for Sydney in 1983. Sydney won the match 38 to 14, with a try scored by Williams. He debuted for the New South Wales representative team against an early-season tour of theAll Blacks, where New South Wales suffered a loss of 10 to 37.^[3] Williams debuted for the Wallabies in the 1984 tour of the British Isles, where originally he was not part of the Australian squad, but was called up as replacement afterBrendan Moon injured an arm during the match againstEngland. Williams played only four matches in the tour, which was known as the Grand Slam Tour, with the Wallabies defeating England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

He made his test debut for Australia in the match againstArgentina, atBuenos Aires, on 31 October 1987. He last cap for Australia was againstNew Zealand, inChristchurch, on 21 July 1990, during the 1990Bledisloe Cup. Williams also played inThe Varsity Match forOxford University, which he also attended before finishing his studies. Later, he moved toJapan, where he played forKobe Steel, where he was part of the squad of the club's golden age. With Kobe Steel, Williams won sixJapan Company Rugby Football Championships and sixAll-Japan Rugby Football Championships. In 1993, Williams was called up to theJapan team by coachOsamu Koyabu. His only cap for Japan was againstWales, inCardiff, on 16 October 1993,^[4] where after Japan's defeat against Wales for 55–5, he would not be called up again for the national team.^[5]

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