Career
Gécsek is of Hungarian Slovenian descent. Later that year he received a four-year ban by the IAAF for a positive drugs test. The next year, however, IAAF shortened the maximum ban to two years.
Gécsek was therefore reinstated after two years.
Later that year he threw 83.68 metres in Zalaegerszeg to record his ultimate career best. Gécsek was elected Vice President of the Hungarian Athletic Federation on November 10, 2002.