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.
Péter Farkas
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona 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]

References

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