What is Vakhtang Balavadze?
[[File:Vakhtang Balavadze 1959.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Balavadze in 1959]] '''Vakhtang Balavadze''' (Georgian: ვახტანგ ბალავაძე, (November 20, 1927 &ndash; July 25, 2018) was a Georgian welterweight freestyle wrestler.<ref name=iat>[https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?spid=AE713A7A38A846E4B78A6998580924E5 Balawadze, Vachtang (URS)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305000756/https://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbfoeldeak/daten.php?spid=AE713A7A38A846E4B78A6998580924E5 |date=2016-03-05 }}. iat.uni-leipzig.de</ref> <ref name=sr>[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/vakhtang-balavadze-1.html Vakht'ang Balavadze] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418075632/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/vakhtang-balavadze-1.html |date=2020-04-18 }}. sports-reference.com</ref> He competed at the [[1956 Summer Olympics|1956]] and [[1960 Summer Olympics]] and won a bronze medal in 1956. He won the world title in 1954 and 1957, and was a runner-up in 1959.<ref name=iat/> Balavadze died on July 25, 2018 in [[Tbilisi]] from a [[heart attack]] at the age of 90.<ref>[https://m.championat.com/news/sport/other/3498267/ Ушёл из жизни бронзовый призёр Игр-1956 по вольной борьбе Балавадзе] {{in lang|ru}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Balavadze, Vakhtang}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Georgia (country)]] [[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Soviet wrestlers]]