| 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.
He has currently 75 caps, with 8 tries scored, 40 points in aggregate, for the Georgian Squad. His debut was on 22 February 2004, in a 6-6 draw with Spain, where he played as a substitute. He was selected for the Georgia side that entered the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals. He played three matches, two of them as a substitute. He was called for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, playing in four matches. He was scoreless in both presences.
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