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Péter Farkas

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

Péter Farkas (born August 14, 1968) is a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Farkas competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the middleweight class.

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. He was arrested on December 26 in Andorra. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in August 2014.



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