Robert Shavlakadze

Robert Shavlakadze
Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold 1960 Rome High jump

Robert Shavlakadze (Georgian: რობერტ შავლაყაძე; 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).

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