[1] Tediashvili won gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the middleweight class.

At the 1978 FILA Wrestling World Championships he received a silver medal in the 100 kg class.

[1] Tediashvili was born to a Georgian 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.

[4] Tediashvili was selected among the Soviet Union top ten athletes of the year in 1973 by the Federation of Sports Journalists of the USSR.

[7] In 2021, Tediashvili played the starring role of a former wrestling champion in Levan Koguashvili's feature film Brighton 4th, for which he was awarded Best Actor at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival,[8] and Outstanding Individual Performance at FilmFestival Cottbus 2021.