Dorin Giurgiuca
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.jpg) Dorin Giurgiuca in 1965 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Romania | ||||||||||||||
| Born | December 8, 1944 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | June 4, 2013 | ||||||||||||||
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Dorin Giurgiuca (December 8, 1944, Mihalț, Alba County, Romania - June 4, 2013) was a Romanian international table tennis player and coach.[1]
Moving at a very young age with his family to Dej, he started playing table tennis when he was 14.[2][3]
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.[3]
A lefty and a master of the topspin,[3] he became Romanian singles champion in 1967 and 1970.[4]
A graduate of the Sports Academy in Cluj, after he retired from active play he became a coach.