Jambulate Tedeev

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Jambulat or Dsambolat Tedejew ( Russian Дзамболат Ильич Тедеев ; born August 23, 1968 in South Ossetia ) is a Russian wrestler of Ossetian origin, who initially competed for the Soviet Union and later for the Ukraine .

Life

Sports

Jambulat Tedejew was born in South Ossetia and started wrestling in 1982 in Vladikavkaz . His trainer was Ruslan Savlochow. He specialized in free style and at the age of twenty was already on the threshold of world class. He made his debut on the international wrestling mat, starting for the Soviet Union, in 1988 at the European Junior Championships in Wałbrzych , Poland . There he won the light heavyweight title. In 1990 he became the Soviet light heavyweight champion. Nevertheless, he did not make any further appearances at international championships because the competition in the former Soviet Union was simply too strong. Above all, Olympic and world champion Maharbeg Kadarzew dominated the light heavyweight division.

After the political changes in the Soviet Union, Jambulat had the opportunity to start for Ukraine from 1993. He therefore joined Champion Kiev and competed at the European Championships in Istanbul that same year . His title win there surprised the wrestling world.

In the next few years he was unable to repeat this success, but came in at the 1994 World Championships in Istanbul , at the 1995 World Championships in Atlanta and at the Olympic Games in Atlanta on an excellent fifth place.

After the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 , he ended his wrestling career. He completed his training as a coach and is now the head coach of the Russian wrestling team in free style.

Role in South Ossetia

Teev's family are among the most politically influential clans in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia . He himself was instrumental in the election success of today's South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity , whose election campaign he and his brother Albert had massively supported in 2001. As president of the internationally unrecognized "Republic of South Ossetia", Kokoity tried to limit the influence of the Tedejew family.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, back then up to 90 kg or 100 kg body weight)

literature

  • International wrestling database . University of Leipzig
  • The wrestler . 1989-1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Article about Eduard Kokoity at Caucaz.com