Levan Tediashvili

Horst Stottmeister , Levan Tediashvili and Benjamin Peterson , World Championship in Tehran 1973

Levan Kitojewitsch Tediaschwili ( Georgian ლევან თედიაშვილი ; born March 15, 1948 in Sagaredscho , Kakheti ) is a former Soviet wrestler and current Georgian politician .

Life

He was a member of Lokomotive Tbilisi and learned to wrestle there. He wrestled exclusively in free style and was one of the world's best between 1970 and 1980. The highlights of his career were the Olympic victories in 1972 in Munich and 1976 in Montreal . He also moved the German world-class wrestlers Horst Stottmeister from Leipzig and Peter Neumair from Munich a few times to the top step. In 1978 Harald Büttner was the only German wrestler to beat Tediaschwili.

After the political change in the Soviet Union, Tediashvili became involved in his native Georgia . He became a politician, is a member of the Georgian parliament and works as a lawyer at the University of Tbilisi. In September 2005 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Wed = Middleweight, HS = Light Heavyweight, S = Heavyweight)

• 1970, 6th place, European Championship in Berlin , F, Wed, with victories over Kampik, Poland, Deak, Hungary and defeats against Horst Stottmeister and Vasile Iorga , Romania ;
• 1971, 1st place, World Championship in Sofia , Wed, F, with victories over Sasaki, Japan , Jan Wypiórczyk , Poland, Niang, Senegal, Horst Stottmeister, Kurt Elmgren , Sweden , Hajilou, Iran and Vasile Iorga;
• 1972, gold medal , OS in Munich, F, Wed, with victories over Peter Neumair , Germany, Ibrahim Diop , Senegal , Tömöriin Artag , Mongolia , Kurt Elmgren , Sweden, John Peterson , USA and a draw against Vasile Iorga;
• 1973, 1st place, World Championships in Teheran , F, HS, with victories over Bülbül, Turkey , Ino, Japan , Hosianikhorami, Iran , Károly Bajkó , Hungary , Horst Stottmeister and Benjamin Peterson , USA;
• 1974, 1st place, EM in Madrid , F, HS, with victories over Dimo Kostow , Bulgaria , Roland Andersson, Sweden, Mehmet Tepe, Turkey, Kurczewski, Poland , Ion Dumitru, Romania and Horst Stottmeister;
• 1974, 1st place, World Championships in Istanbul , F, HS, with victories over Jimmy Martinetti , Switzerland , Kamada, Japan, Mehmet Güclü, Turkey, Kurczewski, George Richey, USA and Ismail Abilow , Bulgaria;
• 1975, 1st place, World Championships in Minsk , F, HS, with victories over Peter Neumair, Géza Molnár , Hungary , Russell Hellickson , USA, Shukri Ahmedov , Bulgaria and Horst Stottmeister;
• 1976, 1st place, EM in Leningrad , F, HS, with victories over Astolla, Italy , Ahmedov, Géza Molnár, Stelică Morcov , Romania, Klaus Gierke , GDR and Neumair;
• 1976, gold medal , OS in Montreal , F, HS, with victories over Maurice Allan , Great Britain , Frank Andersson , Sweden, Wayne Thomas , American Virgin Islands , Horst Stottmeister, Terry Paice , Canada , Benjamin Peterson and Stelică Morcov;
• 1978, 1st place, EM in Sofia , F, S, ahead of Güclü, Vasile Puşcaşu , Romania, Harald Büttner , GDR, Strnisko, CSSR and Ali Mustafov, Bulgaria;
• 1978, 2nd place, World Cup in Mexico City , F, S, with victories against Güclü, Bielenburg, USA, Solimani, Iran, Puşcaşu, Morgan, Cuba and one defeat against Harald Büttner

literature

• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships . FILA, 1976
• Athletics . 1970-1976
• The rings . 1977-1988
• International Wrestling Database . University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TheMat.com from September 13, 2005 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 8, 2010 (English) 

Web links

• Profile of Lewan Tediaschwili at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Lewan Tediaschwili in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )