Péter Farkas

Péter Farkas (born August 14, 1968) is a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

This article is about the wrestler. For the Hungarian footballer, see Péter Farkas (footballer born 1987). For the Slovak footballer, see Peter Farkaš.
Péter Farkas
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona Middleweight
World Championships
1990 Ostia Middleweight
1991 Varna Middleweight
European Championships
1991 Aschaffenburg Middleweight
1996 Budapest Middleweight

Olympics

Farkas competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the middleweight class.[1]

Criminal conviction

On December 10, 2009 he was convicted in absentia to seven years imprisonment for growing marijuana. He was thought to be hiding in Thailand on counterfeit documents.[2] He was arrested on December 26 in Andorra.[3] He was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in August 2014.[4]

References
  1. "1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Wrestling" Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 2, 2008)
  2. Marijuana-growing Olympic champion sentenced to seven years in prison Archived 2009-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. http://index.hu/bulvar/2010/01/03/farkas_peter_tulsagosan_elbizta_magat/
  4. http://hvg.hu/itthon/20140822_Ma_unnepli_szabadulasat_Farkas_Peter


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