# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vakhtang-balavadze
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:45:07.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vakhtang-balavadze"
name: "Vakhtang Balavadze"
slug: "vakhtang-balavadze"
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 won the Soviet title in 1952–55 and 1957, placing second in 1956 and 1959. He retired from competition following the 1960 Summer Olympics to become a wrestling coach and referee."
tagline: "Georgian wrestler (1927–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vakhtang_Balavadze_1959.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1927-11-20"
deathDate: "2018-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.49
  momentum:             3.468208092485549
  historical:           12.008388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Балавадзе Вахтанг Михайлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vakhtang Balavadze (wrestler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajtang_Balavadze"
    title: "Vajtang Balavadze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "واختانگ بالاوادزه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakhtang_Balavadze"
    title: "Vakhtang Balavadze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakhtang_Balavadze"
    title: "Vakhtang Balavadze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahtang_Balavadze"
    title: "Vahtang Balavadze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachtang_Balavadze"
    title: "Vachtang Balavadze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ვახტანგ ბალავაძე"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachtang_Balawadze"
    title: "Wachtang Balawadze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B5%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Балавадзе, Вахтанг Михайлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vakhtang Balavadze"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vahtang Balavadze"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump