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WATCH: #WrestleOslo Freestyle Finals Including Yazdani-Taylor, Sadulaev-Snyder

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 13:12 By United World Wrestling Press

OSLO, Norway (October 5) -- World Championships freestyle finals in all 10 weight classes are available on United World Wrestling's YouTube channel. You can watch the finals including 86kg Hassan YAZDANI (IRI) vs David TAYLOR (USA), Amir ZARE (IRI) vs Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO) and Daton FIX (USA) vs Abasgadzhi MOGAMEDOV (RWF).

1. FS 57kg - Thomas GILMAN (USA) vs Alireza SARLAK (IRI)

2. FS 61kg - Daton FIX (USA) vs Abasgadzhi MOGAMEDOV (RWF)

3. FS 65kg - Amirmohammad YAZDANI (IRI) vs Zagir SHAKHIEV (RWF)

4. Ernazar AKHMATALIEV (KGZ) vs Magomedmurad GHADZIEV (POL)

5. FS 74kg - Kyle DAKE (USA) vs Tajmuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK)

6. FS 79kg - Jordan BURROUGHS vs Mohammad NOKHODILARIM (IRI)

7. FS 86kg - David TAYLOR (USA) vs Hassan YAZDANI (IRI)

8. FS 92kg - Magomed KURBANOV (RWF) vs Kamran GHASEMPOUR (IRI)

9. FS 97kg - Abdulrashid SADULAEV (RWF) vs Kyle SNYDER (USA)

10. FS 125kg - Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO) vs Amir ZARE (IRI)

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Olympic champion Tediashvili passes away at 75

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 16:45 By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (February 19) -- Two-time Olympic champion and United World Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestler Levan TEDIASHVILI passed away on Saturday. He was 75 years old.

Tediashvili won the Freestyle gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics and repeated as the Olympic champion at the 1976 Montreal Games. The two Olympic gold medals were won in 82kg and 90kg weight classes respectively.

Born on March 15, 1948, Tediashvili was a four-time world champion, winning the gold medal in 1971, 1973, 1974 and 1975. His world title and two Olympic medals resulted in him remaining unbeaten internationally from 1971 to 1977.

Levan TEDIASHVILI

In 1978, he jumped to the 100kg weight class and won a silver medal at the World Championships that year. He also won European titles three times.

Georgia awarded him with Vakhtang Gorgasali First Degree Medal and the title of Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi. The wrestling legend was inducted into the UWW Hall of Fame in 2005. He also acted in awarded winning films including Brighton 4th.

UWW mourns the passing of Tediashvili and expresses its deepest sympathies to the Tediashvili family.