Archil Kavtarashvili

Rugby player

Date of birth

(1973-03-16) 16 March 1973 (age 51)

Place of birth

Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR

Height

6 ft 1 in (185 cm)

Weight

210 lb (95 kg)

Rugby union career

International career
Position(s)	Wing
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1994–2003	Georgia	21	(50)

Archil Kavtarashvili (born 16 March 1973) is a Georgian former rugby union international player.^[1]

Born in Tbilisi, Kavtarashvili was a speedy winger who could run the 100 metres in 10.8 seconds.^[2]

Kavtarashvili played rugby union in Italy for Rovigo and was the club's first recruit to come out of the former USSR, once scoring six tries in a 1997 Italian Cup match against Parma.^[2]

Capped in 21 Tests for Georgia, Kavtarashvili's international career included a hat-trick against Bulgaria and two matches at the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia, which were his final outings for the national side.^[3]

References

^ ""არმია" ელიტაში დარჩა, სამცხე-ჯავახეთში კი სარაგბო ბუმი გრძელდება". Sportall (in Georgian). 9 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b Buongiovanni, Andrea (8 November 1997). "Gli implaccabili". La Gazzetta (in Italian).
^ Stone, Simon (25 October 2003). "Georgia gives birth to future as Boks shaken". Irish Examiner.