Levan Tediashvili

Personal information

Born

15 March 1948 (age 68)
Gegmoubani, Georgian SSR

Height

1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)

Weight

90 kg (200 lb)

Sport

Freestyle wrestling

Club

Gantiadi (1968–1974), Lokomotiv (1975–1977), Dynamo (1980)

Medal record

Representing Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1972 Munich	82 kg
	1976 Montreal	90 kg
World Championships
	1971	82 kg
	1973	90 kg
	1974	90 kg
	1975	90 kg
	1978	100 kg

Levan Tediashvili (Georgian: ლევან თედიაშვილი; born 15 March 1948 in Gegmoubani, Georgian SSR) is a former Soviet (Georgian) wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling in 1972 and 1976. He remained undefeated between 1971 and 1976. Besides freestyle wrestling, he was also a Soviet and world champion in sambo.

Tediashvili won gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the middleweight class. At the 1976 Summer Olympics he received gold medal in the light heavyweight class. While winning these titles, he defeated two brothers, John Peterson in 1972 and Ben Peterson in 1976. John won a gold medal in 1976 and Ben won a gold medal in 1972, in the weight categories where Tediashvili did not compete.

Tediashvili won a gold medal in the 82 kg class at the 1971 FILA Wrestling World Championships, and gold medals in the 90 kg class in 1973, 1974 and 1975. At the 1978 FILA Wrestling World Championships he received a silver medal in the 100 kg class. He also won European titles in 1974, 1976 and 1978.

Tediashvili was born to a Gergian father, invalid of World War II, and a Russian mother, who moved to Georgia with her other son Herman after her husband was killed in World War II. Herman also became wrestler and then worked as wrestling coach in Kishinau.

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