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Elbrus Tedeyev

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Elbrus Tedeyev
Personal information
Birth nameЭльбрус Тедеев
Nationality Ukraine
Born (1974-12-05) December 5, 1974 (age 49)
Nogir, Prigorodny District, North Ossetian ASSR, Soviet Union
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country Ukraine
SportWrestling
Weight class62-63-66 kg
EventFreestyle
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Ukraine
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens 66kg
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta 62kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1995 Atlanta 62 kg
Gold medal – first place 1999 Ankara 63 kg
Gold medal – first place 2002 Tehran 66 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Sofia 63 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1999 Minsk 63 kg
Silver medal – second place 1997 Warsaw 63 kg
Silver medal – second place 2003 Riga 66 kg
Silver medal – second place 2004 Ankara 66 kg
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Bratislava 63 kg

Elbrus Tedeyev (born December 5, 1974, in Nogir, Prigorodny District, North Ossetian ASSR,[1] Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian wrestler.

Career

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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]

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