Péter Farkas
Medal record | ||
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Men's Greco-Roman wrestling | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
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.
External links
- Péter Farkas at the International Wrestling Database
- Péter Farkas at Olympedia
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- 1976
Momir Petković (YUG)
- 1980
Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1984
Ion Draica (ROM)
- 1988
Mikhail Mamiashvili (URS)
- 1992
Péter Farkas (HUN)
- 1996
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2000
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2004
Aleksey Mishin (RUS)
- 2008
Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)
- 2012
Alan Khugaev (RUS)
- 2016
Davit Chakvetadze (RUS)
- 2020
Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 1908: 73 kg
- 1912–1928: 75 kg
- 1932–1960: 79 kg
- 1964–1968: 87 kg
- 1972–1996: 82 kg
- 2000: 85 kg
- 2004–2012: 84 kg
- 2016: 85 kg
- 2020–present: 87 kg
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