Lasha Khmaladze
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Lasha Khmaladze (born Tbilisi, 20 January 1988) is a Georgian rugby union player, who plays as a fly half or fullback for the Georgian national rugby union team and Lelo in the Georgia Championship.
He has currently 29 caps for Georgia, with 3 tries scored, 15 points on aggregate. He had his debut at 11 June 2008, in an 11–3 loss to the Emerging Springboks, in Bucharest, for the IRB Nations Cup, aged 20 years old. He played at the 2011 Rugby World Cup qualifyings and was called for the final squad. He played three games at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, one of them as a substitute, scoring a try at the 25–7 loss to Argentina at 2 October 2011.
Khmaladze has been a regular player for Georgia, playing in the side that reached their fourth Rugby World Cup qualification in a row to the upcoming 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.