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Olympic wrestler
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5 December 1974
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Elbrus Tedeyev (born December 5, 1974 in Nogir, Prigorodny District, North Ossetian ASSR, Soviet Union) is a Ossetian wrestler and Olympic champion; he became a citizen of Ukraine in 1993. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. 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 and again in 2012.