Péter Farkas
This article is about the wrestler. For the Hungarian footballer, see Péter Farkas (footballer born 1987). For the Slovak footballer, see Peter Farkaš.
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Hungary
| ||
| Men's Greco-Roman wrestling | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1992 Barcelona | Middleweight |
| World Championships | ||
| | 1990 Ostia | Middleweight |
| | 1991 Varna | Middleweight |
| European Championships | ||
| | 1991 Aschaffenburg | Middleweight |
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1996 Budapest | Middleweight |
Péter Farkas (born August 14, 1968) is a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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
- ↑ "1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 2, 2008)
- ↑ Marijuana-growing Olympic champion sentenced to seven years in prison
- ↑ http://index.hu/bulvar/2010/01/03/farkas_peter_tulsagosan_elbizta_magat/
- ↑ http://hvg.hu/itthon/20140822_Ma_unnepli_szabadulasat_Farkas_Peter
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