Dorin Giurgiuca
Dorin Giurgiuca (December 8, 1944, Mihalț, Alba County, Romania - June 4, 2013) was a Romanian table tennis player and coach.
Moving at a very young age with his family to Dej, he started playing table tennis when he was 14.[1][2]
After he was discovered by Farkas Paneth, he joined CSM Cluj, where he stayed during all his active career, and with which he would win eleven national championships and five European Club Cup of Champions.
At the European Youth Championship in Bled, Yugoslavia, in 1962, he won a gold medal. In 1964, after winning the singles competition of the German, Austrian, and English Open tournaments, he was ranked second in Europe by the European Table Tennis Union.[2]
A lefty and a master of the topspin,[2] he became Romanian singles champion in 1967 and 1970.[3]
A graduate of the Sports Academy in Cluj, after he retired from active play he became a coach.
Achievements
- national champion every year of his career in different competitions (1961-1974)
- twice national champion in the singles competition (1967, 1970)
- European youth champion (1962)
- Balkan Games champion in the singles, doubles and mixed competitions (1965)
- bronze medalist in the mixed competition (with Maria Alexandru, 1967 World Table Tennis Championships
- silver medalist at the European Championship, (with Maria Alexandru), France, 1968
Awards
- Master of Sport, 1962
- Honored Master of Sport, 1994
References
- ↑ "A murit Dorin Giurgiuca, un mare campion" (in Romanian). Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "DORIN GIURGIUCA (1944 - 2013)" (in Romanian). Romanian Table Tennsi Federation. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ↑ "A murit Dorin Giurgiuca". Retrieved June 12, 20. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Dorin Giurgiuca, unul dintre cei mai mari jucători de tenis de masă din toate timpurile, a murit la 67 de ani" (in Romanian). adevarul.ro. June 5, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2014.