Robert Shavlakadze
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men’s athletics | |||
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| Gold | 1960 Rome | High jump | |
Robert Mikhailovich Shavlakadze (Russian: Роберт Михайлович Шавлакадзе) (born 1 April 1933) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the high jump. He trained at Dynamo in Tbilisi.
He competed for the USSR in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the high jump where he won the gold medal.
Shavlakadze was awarded the Order of Lenin (1960).
| Olympic champions in men's high jump |
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| 1896: Ellery Clark | 1900: Irving Baxter | 1904: Samuel Jones | 1906: Cornelius Leahy | 1908: Harry Porter | 1912: Alma Richards | 1920: Richmond Landon | Harold Osborn | 1928: Robert King | 1932: Duncan McNaughton | 1936: Cornelius Johnson | 1948: John Winter | 1952: Walter Davis | 1956: Charles Dumas | 1960: Robert Shavlakadze | 1964: Valeriy Brumel | 1968: Dick Fosbury | 1972: Jüri Tarmak | 1976: Jacek Wszoła | 1980: Gerd Wessig | 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg | 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko | 1992: Javier Sotomayor | 1996: Charles Austin | 2000: Sergey Klyugin | 2004: Stefan Holm |
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