| Athlete |
Nation(s) |
Sport(s) |
Role(s) |
Era |
Notes |
| Bruce Akers |
 AUS |
WRE |
Olympics |
1972—1976 |
Sentenced in 2018 to eighteen months, of which six were spent in prison, for starving dozens of horses he raised on his property. |
| Janez Albreht |
 SLO
 YUG |
IHO |
Olympics |
1976 |
Shot his wife and sent to prison for 5 years and 11 months for attempted murder. |
| Aleksandr Alenitsyn |
 RUS |
TEN |
Olympics |
1912 |
Imprisoned and tortured by the Bolsheviks for “having contacts with other countries”. |
| Dani Alves |
 BRA |
FBL |
Olympics |
2020 |
Jailed for four and a half years in February 2024 for rape |
| Claude Angelo |
AUS |
WRE |
Olympics |
1924 |
Was sentenced to to a month for theft of scrap metal |
| Constantin Apostol |
 ROU |
EJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
Imprisoned for 5 years (1959-64), because he was considered against the Romanian social order. |
| Pietro Aurino |
 ITA |
BOX |
Olympics |
1996 |
Sentenced to ten years in prison (reduced to eight) for outside aid in a Camorrist criminal association, drug peddling and arms trade. |
| Abdul Wahid Aziz |
 IRQ |
WLF |
Olympics |
1960 |
Twice for his leftist views; in February 1963 during the Ramadan Revolution, and between August 8, 1980 and mid-1981 under the regime of Sadaam Hussein |
| James Badrian |
 RHO |
BOX |
Olympics |
1960 |
Jailed on suspicion of murdering his wife, but later proven innocent. |
| Nathan Baggaley |
AUS |
CSP |
Olympics |
2000—2004 |
He pleaded guilty to supplying and manufacturing ecstasy in 2009. He was sentenced to nine years in jail, but was released early in 2011. |
| Ovidiu Bali |
ROU |
BOX |
Olympics |
1996 |
Accused of working for the Italian Camorra, he was sentenced in 2020 to 4 years in prison. |
| Yomi Bankole |
 NGR |
TTE |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
Spent four years in prison for armed robbery. |
| Valér Barač |
 TCH
 SVK |
ATH |
Olympics |
1936 |
Sentenced to 12 years in prison for his involvement of smuggling penicillin in 1949, with him serving seven years. |
| Boris Becker |
 GER |
TEN |
Olympics |
1992 |
In 2022 Becker was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for breaching bankruptcy laws during his bankruptcy proceedings in London. |
| Amilcar Bejarano |
 PAR |
FEN |
Olympics |
1976 |
Sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2013 for emptying the CAJUBI Pension Fund, his sentence was commuted to house arrest due to his age. |
| José Manuel Bermúdez |
 ESP |
ROW |
Olympics |
1980—1992 |
Sentenced to four years prison in 2016 for child abuse while being a rowing instructor. |
| Anders Besseberg |
 NOR |
|
Administrator |
1993—2018 |
Sentenced to 3 years and one month in prison in April 2024 for corruption. |
| Lloyd Binch |
 GBR |
CTR |
Olympics |
1960 |
Sent to prison for four months in 1956 for Conspiring to Defeat the Ends of Justice (now known as Perverting the Course of Justice), and perjury. |
| Galabin Boevski |
 BUL |
WLF |
Olympics |
2000 |
Convicted of cocaine trafficking and sentenced to nine years in Brazilian prison, although he was released in October 2013 and returned to Bulgaria. |
| Patrick Bogere |
 SWE |
BOX |
Olympics |
2004 |
In 2006, he was sentenced to four years in prison for an armed robbery, but was released after 2 years for good behavior on probation again. He then continued his boxing career. |
| Alfried von Bohlen und Halbach |
GER |
SAL |
Olympics |
1936 |
In 1948 he was sentenced to 12 years for “crimes against humanity”, but pardoned after three years in prison. |
| Arne Borg |
SWE |
SWM |
Olympics |
1920—1928 |
After Borg failed to show up for conscription and went on holiday, he was briefly imprisoned. |
| Laura Bortolotti |
ITA |
SWM |
Olympics |
1976 |
Arrested in August 1976 for theft. |
| Hicham Bouaouiche |
 MAR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1996 |
Sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a policeman in France during a robbery gone wrong in December 2000 |
| Dick Boushka |
 USA |
BKB |
Olympics |
1956 |
In December 2002 Boushka pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding American Bank of more than $17 million for various real estate deals. He pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud and one count each of making a false statement to obtain a bank loan and omission of information for the sale of a security, and was eventually sentenced to a 70-month prison term. |
| Riddick Bowe |
USA |
BOX |
Olympics |
1988 |
Sentenced to 18 months in jail for kidnapping his estranged wife and children. |
| Gregor Braun |
 FRG |
CTR |
Olympics |
1976 |
In 2023 he was sentenced to two years and nine months for child abuse. |
| Alajos Bruckner |
 HUN |
SWM |
1906 / Non-starter |
1906—1908 |
After 1945, for his activities during the war, he was sentenced to prison and died in the prison hospital. |
| Jiří Bubla |
 CZE
TCH |
IHO |
Olympics |
1976—1980 |
Sentenced to five years in prison in Vienna for smuggling heroin |
| Gustav Bubník |
CZE
TCH
 FIN |
IHO |
Olympics / Coach |
1948—1968 |
Imprisoned for "planning to defect". |
| Jean-Luc Cairon |
 FRA |
GAR |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1984—1988 |
Died in prison while serving a 100 year sentence for child sexual abuse |
| Pierfrancesco Campana |
 SUI |
ATH |
Non-starter |
1952 |
In 1982 he was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment |
| Jean Caplin |
GBR |
SWM |
Olympics |
1948 |
Sentenced to two six month terms, to run consecutively, on 15 December 1952, on 13 counts of theft. The sentence was later commuted to two years probation on appeal. |
| Adnan Ćatić |
GER |
BOX |
Olympics |
2000 |
Jailed for tax evasion. |
| Chen Chih-Yuan |
 TPE |
BBL |
Olympics / Opening Flagbearer |
2004 |
Sent to prison for 30 months for corruption (match fixing) |
| Mario Cipollini |
ITA |
CRD |
Olympics |
1996 |
In 2022 he was sentenced to three years in prison for domestic abuse. |
| Quincey Clark |
USA |
WRE |
Olympics |
2000 |
Imprisoned in 2022 on child sexual abuse charges. |
| Cassius Clay |
USA |
BOX |
Olympics / Torch Bearer / Olympic Flagbearer |
1960—2012 |
In 1967 he was convicted for refusing to serve in the US Army and sentenced to 5 years in prison. His jail sentence was eventually overturned in the Supreme Court. |
| Javier Cóndor |
 CRC |
JUD |
Olympics |
1984 |
Arrested in Costa Rica and Panama for robberies, kidnapping, escape, over twenty years in prison. |
| Jean Conrath |
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1976 |
Sports agent, he was sentenced to three months in prison and a fine of 8,000 euros for hosting fifteen Kenyan athletes "in conditions contrary to human dignity", in 2005. |
| Constantin Corduneanu |
ROU |
WRE |
Olympics |
1992—1996 |
He has served over seven months in prison since January 2020 for various crimes. |
| George Daniels |
 GHA |
ATH |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1972—1976 |
Has been senetenced for 7 years to prison in 2004 for defiling his own niece. |
| Alex de Jesús |
 PUR |
BOX |
Olympics |
2004 |
In 2010 he was sentenced to 4 years for domestic violence and weapons offences. |
| Yvonne de Ligne |
 BEL |
FSK |
Olympics |
1932—1936 |
Hired a killer to murder her husband and sent to prison for 15 years. |
| Javier de Pedro |
ESP |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1996 |
Convicted several times for sexist violence, he served a nine-month prison sentence in 2024. |
| Stefan Denifl |
 AUT |
CRD |
Olympics |
2016 |
In January 2021, sentenced to 24 months in prison for commercial fraud for his role in Operation Aderlass, a blood doping scheme, although 16 months of the sentence were suspended. |
| Quincy Detenamo |
 NRU |
WLF |
Olympics |
1996 |
In 2005 he was sentenced to nine years for the murder of a Melbourne prostitute |
| Charles Dewachtere |
BEL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1952 |
Received a 30 month prison sentence following an altercation that occurred shortly after his Olympic appearance |
| Đỗ Tiến Tuấn |
 VIE |
BOX |
Olympics |
1988 |
Imprisoned for life in 1999 after being convicted of murder |
| Ion Draica |
ROU |
WRE |
Olympics |
1980—1984 |
Sentenced to three years for a case of fraud and tax evasion, reduced in part for health problems. |
| Daniel Dumitrescu |
ROU |
BOX |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
Arrested in Rome for theft of wallets in 2009 |
| Christophe Dupouey |
FRA |
MTB |
Olympics |
1996—2000 |
In 2006, he was found to be involved in a widespread doping scandal involving "pot belge", a mixture of cocaine, amphetamine and heroin that was used for performance enhancement on the Kermesse circuit. He served a three-month jail sentence. |
| Jerry Dusenberry |
USA |
BOX |
Referee |
1992 |
Sentenced to 10 years in prison for youth sexual abuse |
| Róbert Éder |
HUN |
ROW |
Olympics |
1908 |
In 1921, he was sentenced for six months jail for high treason and in 1931, for eight months prison for deception. |
| Alberto Egea |
 VEN |
ART |
Olympics |
1932 |
Arrested after criticizing the government of Pérez Jiménez |
| Max Emmerich |
USA |
ATH/GAR |
Olympics |
1904 |
Sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling $40,000. |
| Falih Fahmi |
IRQ |
ATH |
Olympics / Opening Flagbearer |
1960 |
Imprisoned, and later executed, for insulting Saddam Hussein in front of his fellow military officers |
| Péter Farkas |
HUN |
WRE |
Olympics |
1992—1996 |
Sentenced to five years in prison for running a marijuana farm. Escaped, but later re-captured, and the sentence increased to seven years. |
| Rich Fellers |
USA |
EJP |
Olympics |
2012 |
Pleaded guilty to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of second-degree sexual abuse in July 2023, and sentenced to four years in prison. |
| Adam Forsyth |
AUS |
BOX |
Olympics |
2004 |
In February 2023 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison after being caught with $84 million worth of methamphetamine (meth). |
| Thomas Gerull |
FRG |
FEN |
Olympics |
1988 |
In 2015-16 Thomas and his twin brother Michael Gerull were involved in one of the most sensational investor scandals in Germany in recent years, in which around 25,000 small investors lost their money. Both were sentenced to prison for eight and seven years. |
| Madiea Ghafoor |
 NED |
ATH |
Olympics |
2016 |
Sentenced to eight years on drug smuggling charges |
| Toby Gibson |
USA |
BOX |
Olympics |
1964 |
Served time in prison for armed robbery. |
| Harry Gill |
GBR |
GAR |
Olympics |
1908 |
Sentenced to 12 months in 1936 for 50 counts of embezzlement and other charges. |
| Armand Grenet |
FRA |
RGB |
Olympics |
1920 |
Spent one year in prison for stealing 400,000 francs from his work |
| Brittney Griner |
USA |
BKB |
Olympics |
2016—2024 |
Jailed in Russia on 4 August 2022 after pleading guilty to illegally carrying cannabis-infused vape cartridges in her luggage at Moscow airport. Sentenced to nine years in prison, she was released on 8 December 2022 in a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia. |
| Rob Groenhuyzen |
NED |
VVO |
Olympics |
1964 |
Imprisoned for three years for politically motivated attacks on objects. |
| Fethi Gürcan |
 TUR |
EVE |
Olympics |
1956 |
Imprisoned, and later executed, for his role in an attempted coup against the Turkish government. |
| Sébastienne Guyot |
FRA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928 |
Sentenced to six months in prison in 1940 for helping her brother escape from a prisoner of war camp in northern France. |
| Přemysl Hajný |
CZE
TCH
YUG |
IHO |
Olympics / Coach |
1948—1976 |
Imprisoned for "planning to defect". |
| Toni Hannula |
FIN |
WRE |
Olympics |
1984 |
Spent ten years in prison between 1989 and 2010 for crimes of violence and robbery |
| Aran Hansen |
 NZL |
SAL |
Olympics |
1984—1988 |
Hansen was in 2000 sentenced to 18 months' jail on the sex charges, 18 months for supplying cannabis, one month for possessing cannabis and three months for possessing the pistol and ammunition. |
| Audley Harrison |
GBR |
BOX |
Olympics |
2000 |
Jailed for robbery in his teens |
| Itzhak Hatuel |
 ISR |
FEN |
Olympics |
1984 |
In December 2022 convicted of possession and carrying of weapons, serious injuries and aiding and abetting drug possession. |
| Bob Hayes |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1964 |
Served a two-year jail term for possession and trafficking in illegal drugs. |
| Clarence Hill |
 BER |
BOX |
Olympics |
1976 |
He ended up in prison twice, once for cocaine possesion and once for armed robbery. |
| Raimo Hirvonen |
FIN |
WRE |
Olympics |
1972 |
Spent time in prison for crimes of violence and robbery |
| Charles Hoff |
NOR |
ATH |
Olympics / Administrator |
1924—1944 |
Sentenced to nine years of forced labour in 1947, as a part of the legal purge in Norway after World War II. |
| Damien Hooper |
AUS |
BOX |
Olympics / YOG |
2010—2012 |
Sent to prison for 27 months for assault |
| Trevor Jacob |
USA |
SBD |
Olympics |
2014 |
Sentenced to six months for "Obstruction of a Federal Investigation" into an incident where he crashed his own plane for a stunt on social media. |
| Antony James |
GBR |
SWM |
Olympics |
2012 |
Sentenced to 21 years for rape and sexual activity with a child. |
| Ravivimal Jayewardene |
 SRI |
SHO |
Olympics |
1964 |
Imprisoned briefly in 1971 for alleged complicity in the JVP insurrection. |
| David Jenkins |
GBR |
ATH |
Olympics |
1972—1980 |
Sentenced to seven years in prison, but served just nine months for smuggling steroids. |
| Adam Johnson |
GBR |
FBL |
Non-starter |
2012 |
Jailed for six years for sexual activity with a child under 16. Freed after three years. |
| Marion Jones |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
2000—2004 |
Sentenced to six-months in jail for perjury related to doping offenses, serving began in March 2008. |
| Jeff Julian |
NZL |
ATH |
Olympics |
1960—1964 |
Sentence to 2 years in prison in 2000 for conspiracy to defraud. |
| Somluck Kamsing |
 THA |
BOX |
Olympics / Opening Flagbearer |
1992—2004 |
Sentenced to 3 years for abduction of a child and attempted rape |
| László Karácson |
HUN |
MPN |
Olympics |
1948 |
|
| Ignac Kavec |
SLO
YUG |
IHO |
Olympics |
1976 |
In 2013 he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for extortion. |
| Fred Kerley |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
2020—2024 |
Arrested in January 2025 for assault and resisting a public official. |
| Bruce Kimball |
USA |
DIV |
Olympics |
1984 |
Sentenced to 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter in 1988. He was released in 1993 after serving five years. |
| Luka Klasinc |
SLO |
FSK |
Olympics |
1992 |
In 2023 he was sentenced to 2 and a half years in a US prison on charges that he tried to obtain government aid during the Covid-19 pandemic by use of forged documents. |
| Vladimír Kobranov |
CZE
TCH |
IHO |
Olympics |
1948 |
Imprisoned for "planning to defect". |
| Aleksandr Kolchinsky |
 URS
 UKR |
WRE |
Olympics |
1976—1980 |
Was sentenced to seven years of prison on extortion charges in 1994, but was paroled by Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma in 1996. |
| Stanislav Konopásek |
CZE
TCH |
IHO |
Olympics |
1948 |
Imprisoned for "planning to defect". |
| Jozef Koščak |
TCH
SVK |
ATH |
Olympics |
1928 |
Imprisoned in the 1950s for five years on false charges of treason and espionage before being cleared of all charges. |
| Pablo Lara |
 CUB |
WLF |
Olympics |
1992—1996 |
He was imprisoned for several years for possession of firearms. |
| Ron Laycock |
AUS |
WLF |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
Jailed for over three months in 2014 during trials on drug supply and weapons possession charges. |
| Tamara Lazakovich |
 BLR
URS |
GAR |
Olympics |
1972 |
Unhappiness with her life led her to alcoholism, which resulted in several jail sentences. |
| John Nelson Le Fevre |
GBR |
SHO |
Olympics |
1908 |
Imprisoned five times between 1912-35 on various fraud, deception and bankruptcy offences. |
| Wayne LeBombard |
USA |
SSK |
Olympics |
1964—1968 |
In 1987 he was arrested and sentenced to 45 days in jail for stealing money from a bike shop. |
| Knut Lindberg |
SWE |
ATH |
Olympics / 1906 |
1906—1912 |
In 1910 Lindberg was convicted of killing a taxi driver but only served seven months. |
| Tomasz Lipiec |
 POL |
ATH |
Olympics |
2000 |
Convicted with corruption and sentenced 3 and a half years in prison in 2012. On appeal, the sentence was reduced to 2 years and 3 months. He was released from prison in August 2014 |
| Spyros Louis |
 GRE |
ATH |
Olympics |
1896 |
Imprisoned on charges of falsifying military documents in 1926. He spent more than a year in jail before his trial on 28 June 1927, when was acquitted. |
| Béla Lőwig |
HUN |
BOX |
Olympics |
1924 |
Lőwig worked as a bodyguard for the fascist Hungarian Prime Minister, Ferenc Szálasi. In 1946 Löwig was sentenced to three years in prison. |
| Lu Jun |
 CHN |
FBL |
Referee |
2000 |
Sentenced in 2012 to five and a half years in prison for corruption (bribes to fix matches). |
| Raimo Majuri |
FIN |
NCB |
Olympics |
1964—1968 |
Jailed for 6 years in the 1970s in Denmark for drug smuggling |
| Sydney Maree |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics / Non-starter |
1984—1988 |
Served 21 months of a six year sentence for fraud |
| Humberto Mariles |
 MEX |
EJP/EVE |
Olympics |
1948—1952 |
In 1964 he was imprisoned after shooting a man, but was released by presidential pardon. In 1972 he was arrested in Paris for drug-smuggling but died in prison before coming to trial. |
| Viktor Mazin |
RUS
URS |
WLF |
Olympics |
1980 |
imprisoned at the age of 16 for theft. |
| Hamish McLachlan |
AUS |
ROW |
Olympics |
1988 |
A stockbroker, he was accused of transferring his own share options, which were falling in value, to his clients’ accounts in 1996-97. In 2004 he was found guilty and ordered to serve a nine-year jail sentence. |
| Scott Miller |
AUS |
SWM |
Olympics |
1996 |
In 2022 sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to several charges including supplying methamphetamine and heroin and participating in a criminal group. |
| Gafar Mirzoyev |
 TJK |
|
Administrator / Opening Flagbearer |
2001—2004 |
Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006. |
| Bohumil Modrý |
CZE
TCH |
IHO |
Olympics |
1948 |
Imprisoned for "planning to defect". |
| Houshang Montazeralzohour |
 IRI |
WRE |
Olympics |
1976 |
Imprisoned and tortured for nearly two months prior to his execution for alleged insurrection against the state |
| Carlo Montemurro |
ITA |
IHO |
Olympics |
1956 |
Was sentenced to six years in prison on six fraud charges in 1984. |
| Tim Montgomery |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1996—2000 |
In May 2008 sentenced to 46 months in prison for his role in a check-fraud and money laundering scheme. In October 2008 sentenced to five-years in prison for heroin dealing. |
| Pierre Mony |
FRA |
FBL |
Non-starter |
1920 |
On May 15, 1928 Many shot and killed his friend Jean Delpierre (former cycling champion) since he suspected that he was a lover of his wife. The jury acquitted it. |
| Simo Morri |
FIN |
SHO |
Olympics |
1968 |
Sentenced to life in prison (later reduced to 11 years) for murder after shooting dead his wife. |
| Larisa Moskalenko |
URS
UKR
 EUN |
SAL |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
Arrested in 2013 on charges of child trafficking. |
| Artūrs Motmillers |
 LAT |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924—1936 |
Sentenced to nine years prison in the 1960s for illegal trade offenses. |
| Mun Seong-Gil |
 KOR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1984 |
Sentenced to six months in prison for molesting a woman |
| Cyril Musil |
CZE
TCH |
CCS |
Olympics |
1936 |
Imprisoned for espionage and illegal gun ownership after a staged trial |
| László Muskát |
HUN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
He was imprisoned for a year in 1958, but it was never established why. |
| Fabian Muyaba |
 ZIM |
ATH |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
In 2009, he was sentenced to 10 years for defrauding the US government. |
| Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar |
 MGL |
JUD |
Olympics / Administrator |
2008—2021 |
Sentenced to 16 years after killing someone in a drunken brawl |
| Tamaz Namgalauri |
 GEO
URS |
JUD |
Olympics |
1980 |
Arrested on June 12, 1988, on charges of raping and killing with extreme cruelty a 9-year-old girl. Sentenced to capital punishment, sentence carried out. |
| Vincenzo Nardiello |
ITA |
BOX |
Olympics |
1988 |
Sentenced to three years and four months in prison for extortion and two years and six months for threats |
| Marvin Nash |
 CAN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1976 |
Imprisoned in the early 1990s for selling crack cocaine to an undercover police officer. |
| Arslan Nepesov |
 TKM |
|
Administrator |
2006 |
In 2008 arrested in Ashgabat and sentenced to seven years in prison. |
| Jeremy Nobis |
USA |
ALP |
Olympics |
1994 |
Imprisoned for repeated episodes of DUI, and died while in prison in Cedar City, Utah. |
| Petter Northug |
NOR |
CCS |
Olympics / Closing Flagbearer |
2010—2014 |
In 2020 he was sentenced to seven months in prison. |
| Doug Northway |
USA |
SWM |
Olympics |
1972—1976 |
In 1997 he pleaded guilty to attempted molestation of a 9-year-old girl he was coaching and was sentenced to four months in prison, four months of house arrest, and lifetime probation. |
| Matti Nykänen |
FIN |
SJP |
Olympics |
1984—1988 |
He was found guilty of aggravated assault and sentenced to a 26-month jail term in October 2004, but since it was his first offense, he was released from jail in September 2005. While on probation, he was re-arrested four days later for again abusing Tapola. Nykänen was convicted again for four months on 16 March 2006, but soon after his release he stabbed a man in a pizza restaurant in Korpilahti. This time he was sentenced to two years in prison, but the term was later shortened to 60 days and 57 hours of community service. |
| Rudel Obreja |
ROU |
BOX |
Olympics |
1984 |
Sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering, tax evasion and bribery (2018). |
| Godwin Okpara |
NGR |
FBL |
Olympics |
2000 |
In August 2005, Okpara was arrested by French police on charges of raping his 13 year-old adopted daughter. He was found guilty and imprisoned in June 2007 for 10 years. His wife, Linda Okpara, accused of torture on the same person has been condemned to 15 years in jail. |
| Sylvester Omodiale |
NGR |
ATH |
Olympics |
2000 |
In 2006 he was sentenced to 4 years in prison for smuggling cocaine. |
| Sebahattin Öztürk |
TUR |
WRE |
Olympics |
1992—1996 |
After 16 months in prison during the trials he was sentenced to 13 years and 4 months for having founded a criminal organization. |
| Igor Paklin |
 KGZ
URS
EUN |
ATH |
Olympics |
1988—1992 |
In 1995 imprisoned for manslaughter. |
| Vasilios Papageorgopoulos |
GRE |
ATH |
Olympics / Opening Flagbearer |
1972—1976 |
In 2013 he was sentenced to life in prison from embezzling €18,000,000 during his time as mayor of Thessaloniki. |
| Park Myung-Soo |
KOR |
BKB |
Coach |
2004 |
Sentenced on 5 July 2007 to 10 months in prison for sexual harassment. |
| Arthur Parkin |
NZL |
HOC |
Olympics |
1972—1984 |
In 2018 he was sentenced to 20 months in prison for indecently assaulting young girls |
| Ken Patera |
USA |
WLF |
Olympics |
1972 |
Was sentenced to 2 years for assaulting a police offer. Served 18 months |
| Pepote |
ESP |
SAL |
Olympics |
1992—2000 |
Since 2009, he has been convicted several times on fraud and embezzlement charges, with sentences commuted to fines. |
| Terry Perdue |
GBR |
WLF |
Olympics |
1968—1972 |
Sentenced to four years imprisonment in 1991 for stealing £10,000 worth of metal casing from British Steel. He was released nine months later after his original sentence was quashed by the appeal court in London. |
| Nils Persson |
SWE |
SAL |
Olympics |
1912 |
In 1935, sentenced to one and a half years for fraud, embezzlement and disloyalty to his principal. |
| János Petrovics |
HUN |
BOX |
Olympics |
1992 |
Spent three months in prison in the mid-1990s. |
| Brian Phelps |
GBR |
DIV |
Olympics |
1960—1964 |
Charged with rape, attempted rape, and 19 indecent assaults on females under the age of 15 between 1976 and 1986. In May 2008, he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three young girls at his gymnastics club during the 1970s and 80s and was sentenced to nine years in prison. |
| Stephen Pinsent |
GBR |
WLF |
Olympics |
1980—1984 |
Sent to prison for three months in 1989 for supplying anabolic steroids |
| Oscar Pistorius |
 RSA |
ATH |
Olympics / Closing Flagbearer |
2012 |
In 2014 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison for culpable homicide. |
| Ľudovít Plachetka |
CZE |
BOX |
Olympics |
1996 |
Served nine years for murder and attempted murder. Released then later convicted of sexual offences. |
| Eugen Preda |
ROU |
WSU |
Non-Medal |
2008 |
The head of a criminal group, he was sentenced in 2013 to 12 years in prison for a case of weapons theft. |
| Cosme Prenafeta |
ESP |
VVO |
Olympics |
2000 |
In 2023 he was sentenced to two years in prison for sexual abuse and in 2024 another trial was opened against him. |
| István Prihoda |
HUN |
SHO |
Olympics |
1912 |
His car caused a fatal accident, for which he was sentenced to 1 year prison |
| Harry Prinzler |
USA |
GAR |
Olympics |
1904 |
Sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling $40,000. |
| Manuel Puig |
CUB |
ROW |
Olympics |
1948 |
Puig was a member of Brigade 2506 that attempted to assist the US-backed Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos) invasion in 1961. In March 1961 Puig was arrested. He was executed by firing squad one month later. His brother, Ramón, was sentenced to 30 years hard labor for his role in resisting the Castro government, but he was later released and escaped to Miami. |
| Ramón Puig |
CUB |
ROW |
Olympics |
1948 |
Condemned to 30 years of hard labor in various Cuban prisons, including La Cabaña, Isla de Pinos, El Príncipe, Melena del Sur, and Sandino. Eventually was released and escaped to Miami, Florida. |
| Josaia Raisuqe |
 FIJ |
RU7 |
Olympics |
2024 |
Spent a day in jail after being arrested for sexual assault. Later sentenced to six months in prison for the crime. |
| Mathieu Razanakolona |
 MAD |
ALP |
Olympics / Opening Flagbearer / Closing Flagbearer |
2006 |
He was sentenced to two years of community service for defrauding his employer of more than $400,000 in 2009. |
| Owen Reilly |
GBR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1956 |
Jailed for eight years in 1993 at Glasgow Crown Court after being found guilty of sex offences against young girls over a 25-year period between 1967-92. |
| Rogelio Rengel |
ESP |
|
Other |
1993 |
In 2018, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a continuous crime of corporate misappropriation and falsification of accounts for more than 15 million euros. |
| Faustino Reyes |
ESP |
BOX |
Olympics |
1992 |
Sent to Prison: In 2021, he was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for failing to comply with a previous sentence for burglary in a home. |
| Warren Richards |
AUS |
JUD |
Olympics |
1976 |
Arrested and found guilty for drug trafficking. |
| Steve Riddick |
USA |
ATH |
Olympics |
1976 |
In 2007 he was convicted of conspiracy, bank fraud, and money laundering, and sentenced to federal prison for five years and three months for counterfeiting checks. |
| Murray Riley |
AUS |
ROW |
Olympics |
1952—1956 |
In 1966 he was jailed for a year in New Zealand on charges of attempting to bribe a police inspector. In 1978 he was arrested after 4.3 tons of cannabis was found onboard a yacht. Riley pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Judge Kenneth Torrington to 5-10 years in jail. |
| Julio César Rocha López |
 NCA |
|
Administrator |
1997—2009 |
Arrested in 2015 in Zurich for corruption, extradited and imprisoned in the United States until his death. |
| Václav Roziňák |
CZE
TCH |
IHO |
Olympics |
1948 |
Imprisoned for "planning to defect". |
| Dick Rydze |
USA |
DIV |
Olympics |
1972 |
In March 2018 he was sentenced to ten years in prison for illegally distributing anabolic steroids. |
| Besu Sado |
 ETH |
ATH |
Olympics |
2016 |
In January 2023 given a life sentence for the murder of her husband, along with two of her brothers, and two other assailants. Only Sado and one brother were convicted, as the others escaped and were not caught as of March 2023. |
| Manuel Sanguily |
CUB |
SWM |
Olympics / Opening Flagbearer |
1952—1956 |
In 2010, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for large-scale prescription fraud. |
| Luigi Sartor |
ITA |
FBL |
Olympics |
1996 |
Arrested on 19 December 2011 for the "Last Bet" investigation in football betting. He remained in prison for two months and two months under house arrest. In 2021 he was placed under house arrest for growing a marijuana farm. |
| Vera Schenone |
ITA |
ALP |
Olympics |
1956 |
Arrested in January 2025 for attempted murder (she shot a neighbor). |
| Donatella Schiavon |
ITA |
SWM |
Olympics |
1976 |
Arrested in August 1976 for theft. |
| Thomas Schleicher |
AUT |
JUD |
Olympics |
1996 |
Committed suicide while in prison. |
| Alain Schmitt |
FRA |
JUD |
Olympics |
2012 |
In March 2025 he was arrested for 48 hours after beating his partner Margaux Pinot at home while completely drunk. |
| Brian Schumacher |
GBR |
BOX |
Olympics |
1984 |
Served 23 years for murder after killing his mother's partner. |
| Wolfgang Schwarz |
AUT |
FSK |
Olympics |
1964—1968 |
In 2002 he was sentenced to 1½ years in prison on trafficking charges related to importing young Lithuanian girls to Austria to serve as prostitutes. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in August 2006 for plotting to kidnap the daughter of a Romanian businessman. |
| Peter Seisenbacher |
AUT |
JUD |
Olympics |
1980—1988 |
Seisenbacher was found in Ukraine after he had been on the run for seven months, and was handed over to Austrian authorities in September 2019. He was eventually sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of sexual abuse. |
| Lebogang Shange |
RSA |
ATH |
Olympics |
2016 |
Jailed for 10 years in 2023 for rape |
| Guðmundur Sigurjónsson |
CAN
 ISL |
GLM/IHO |
Non-Medal / Coach |
1908—1920 |
The last man to be sentenced to prison for homosexual acts in Iceland. Some years later he received a Royal Pardon by the King of Denmark. |
| Ayouba Ali Sihame |
 COM |
SWM |
Olympics |
2012 |
In January 2013, she pleaded guilty to using false documents to avoid being married against her will and was sentenced to eight months in jail. |
| Bill Silkworth |
USA |
SHO |
Olympics |
1924 |
On 29 November 1929, he was found guilty of using the mails to defraud and was sentenced to a short jail term and fined several thousand dollars. |
| Gurbir Singh Sandhu |
 IND |
SHO |
Olympics |
1976 |
The former international trap shooter was convicted for possessing tusks of wild boar without a licence under the Wildlife (Protection) Act in 2017. The court had also imposed a fine of ₹20,000 on him and he was released on submitting a surety bond of Rs 1 lakh. |
| Amerjit Singh |
GBR |
WRE |
Olympics |
1996 |
Sentenced to six and a half years in prison for arms and ammunition trading. |
| James Snook |
USA |
SHO |
Olympics |
1920 |
Found guilty of murder and later suffered the death penalty. |
| Hope Solo |
USA |
FBL |
Olympics / Non-starter |
2004—2016 |
Sent to jail for 30 days and got a further two year suspended sentence for driving impaired. |
| Yevhen Sotnykov |
UKR |
JUD |
Olympics |
2008 |
Sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, which later reduced to 15 years. |
| Doc Strong |
USA |
WRE |
Olympics |
1936 |
Committed suicide in a jail cell where he sat for public drunkenness. |
| Teodors Sukatnieks |
LAT |
ATH |
Olympics |
1924 |
Imprisoned from 1947 to 1951 in Latvia SSR before sent to a concentration camp in the Omsk region and then released in 1960. |
| Sergey Suslin |
RUS
URS |
JUD |
Olympics |
1972 |
Sentenced to 9 years in prison in 1981 for robbery and other criminal acts. |
| Patric Suter |
SUI |
ATH |
Olympics |
2004 |
In 2009 Suter was arrested for the murder of a married couple and later sentenced to life imprisonment. He had belonged to a so-called "snowball circle". Due to his drug addiction, he was in financial difficulties and wanted to renovate this way. |
| Lang Tombong Tamba |
 GAM |
|
Administrator |
2009—2010 |
Imprisoned for allegedly plotting a coup attempt |
| Tin Tun |
 MYA |
BOX |
Olympics |
1964—1968 |
Imprisoned as "political dissident". |
| Włodzimierz Trams |
POL |
BKB |
Olympics |
1968 |
Sentenced to 5 years in prison for smuggling gold in 1971, with him serving 41 months. |
| Trương Thế Toàn |
VIE |
FBL |
Referee |
2004 |
Arrested in 2005 on corruption charges, sentenced to 24 months suspended, he spent only a few months in prison. |
| Toma Tudoran |
ROU |
EJP |
Olympics |
1936 |
In 1960, he was sentenced to six years by a military court, being released after four years and retired from the Army. |
| Regilio Tuur |
NED |
BOX |
Olympics |
1988 |
In 2003, he was sentenced to 20 months in jail for various violence offences, including the beating of his wife and the assault of a police officer. |
| Masato Uchishiba |
 JPN |
JUD |
Olympics |
2004—2008 |
In February 2013 sentenced to five years in prison for raping a student he had been coaching. |
| Iñaki Urdangarín |
ESP |
HBL |
Olympics |
1992—2000 |
Sentenced to 6 years and three months for his part in a political scandal, embezzlement and money laundering in 2017. He stayed out of prison on appeal, and in June 2018 his sentence was reduced to five years and 10 months. However, he had to start the sentence within five days of the ruling by a judge in Palma de Mallorca. |
| Steven van de Velde |
NED |
VBV |
Olympics |
2024 |
In 2016 van de Velde was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in England. He served one year of his four-year sentence before resuming his volleyball career. |