Péter Farkas (born 14 August 1968) is a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in

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Olympics

Farkas competed at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

in Barcelona where he received a gold medal in

, the ''middleweight'' class."1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona, Spain – Wrestling"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on September 2, 2008)

Criminal conviction

On 10 December 2009 he was convicted ''in absentia'' to seven years imprisonment for growing

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. At the time of the bust in 2004, his was the largest operation ever recorded in the country. He was thought to be hiding in Thailand on counterfeit documents, but was ultimately arrested in Andorra. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in August 2014. 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.

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* Olympic wrestlers for Hungary Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Hungarian male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Living people 1968 births Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics European Wrestling Championships medalists World Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Hungarian people 21st-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-wrestling-bio-stub