Medal record | ||
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Men's Greco-Roman wrestling | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1992 Barcelona | Middleweight |
World Championships | ||
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1990 Ostia | Middleweight |
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1991 Varna | Middleweight |
European Championships | ||
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1991 Aschaffenburg | Middleweight |
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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.