Elbrus Tedeyev

Elbrus Tedeyev
Ельбрус Тедеєв
Personal information
Nationality Ukraine
Born (1974-12-05) December 5, 1974
Nogir, North Ossetian ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country Ukraine
SportWrestling
Weight class
62-63-66 kg
Event
Freestyle
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2004 Athens66 kg
Bronze medal – third place1996 Atlanta62 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1995 Atlanta62 kg
Gold medal – first place1999 Ankara63 kg
Gold medal – first place2002 Tehran66 kg
Bronze medal – third place2001 Sofia63 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place1999 Minsk63 kg
Silver medal – second place1997 Warsaw63 kg
Silver medal – second place2003 Riga66 kg
Silver medal – second place2004 Ankara66 kg
Bronze medal – third place1998 Bratislava63 kg

Elbrus Soslanovych Tedeyev (Ukrainian: Ельбрус Сосланович Тедеєв; born December 5, 1974) is a Ukrainian wrestler.

Career

He is an Olympic champion; he became a citizen of Ukraine in 1993.[2] He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[3] He is a three-time world champion and the brother of Dzhambolat Tedeyev, who also represented Ukraine.

Tedeyev became People's Deputy of Ukraine in 2006 as an independent politician on the party list of Party of Regions, he was reelected on this list during early parliamentary elections in 2007[2] and again in 2012.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Official website of Elbrus Tedeyev Archived 2012-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 (in Russian) Эльбрус Тедеев, file.liga.net
  3. ↑ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Wrestling" Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 17, 2008)
  4. ↑ (in Ukrainian)Московский комсомолец:Рада як ніколи Moskovsky Komsomolets:Council as ever[link removed], Korrespondent.net (13 September 2012)
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