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Péter Farkas

Hungarian wrestler (born 1968)

Péter Farkas
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing Hungary
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	Middleweight
World Championships
	1990 Ostia	Middleweight
	1991 Varna	Middleweight
European Championships
	1991 Aschaffenburg	Middleweight
	1996 Budapest	Middleweight

Péter Farkas (born 14 August 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 10 December 2009 he was convicted in absentia to seven years imprisonment for growing marijuana. At the time of the bust in 2004, his was the largest operation ever recorded in the country.^[2] He was thought to be hiding in Thailand on counterfeit documents,^[3] but was ultimately arrested in Andorra.^[4] He was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in August 2014.^[5]

Stemming from his case, the rules of Hungarian Olympic medalists' lifetime annuity were changed to require keeping a clean criminal record, and Farkas was stripped of his.^[6]

References

^ "1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Wrestling" Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on September 2, 2008)
^ Perdöntő bizonyítékra bukkantak Farkas Péter ügyében Archived 2017-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
^ Marijuana-growing Olympic champion sentenced to seven years in prison Archived 2009-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Farkas Péter túlságosan elbízta magát". 3 January 2010.
^ "Ma ünnepli szabadulását Farkas Péter olimpiai bajnok". 22 August 2014.
^ "Elvennék a bűnöző bajnokok életjáradékát". 3 December 2009.