Date of birth | 18 January 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 114 kg (17 st 13 lb; 251 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Levan Datunahsvili (born 18 January 1983, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian rugby union player who plays as a lock.
Datunahsvili currently plays for Aurillac, in France.
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