Péter Farkas
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Competitor for  Hungary |
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| Gold | 1992 Barcelona | Middleweight |
Péter Farkas (born August 14, 1968) is a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
[edit] Olympics
Farkas competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the middleweight class.[1]
[edit] 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]
[edit] 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/
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