page_title: Vakhtang Balavadze
hierarchical_section_title: Vakhtang Balavadze
caption_attribution_description: Freestyle Wrestling at the 1959 World Wrestling Championships, 73 kg podium, Vakhtang Balavadze
context_page_description: Vakhtang Balavadze was a Georgian welterweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 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.
  Balavadze died on July 25, 2018 in Tbilisi from a heart attack at the age of 90.
context_section_description: Vakhtang Balavadze (Georgian: ვახტანგ ბალავაძე, (November 20, 1927 – July 25, 2018) was a Georgian welterweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 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.
  Balavadze died on July 25, 2018 in Tbilisi from a heart attack at the age of 90.
caption: Balavadze in 1959
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