Dorin Giurgiuca

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Dorin Giurgiuca (born December 8, 1944 in Mihalț ; † June 4, 2013 ) was a Romanian table tennis player . In the 1960s and 1970s he took part in four world championships and at least five European championships .

Career

Dorin Giurgiuca began playing table tennis at the age of eleven. He was discovered and promoted by Farkas Paneth . In 1959 the left-hander joined the CSM Cluj Napoca association.

Dorin Giurgiuca achieved her first international success as a teenager. In 1962 he was European Youth Champion in singles, doubles with Adalbert Rethi and mixed with Judith Crejec, he came second. He achieved numerous successes at the national championships of Romania. He was Romanian champion twice in singles (1968,1970), four times in doubles (1965–1967 with Gheorghe Cobirzan , 1968 with Radu Negulescu ), five times in mixed (1963 with Ella Zeller-Constantinescu , 1965–1967 with Maria Alexandru , 1969 with Carmen Crișan ) and several times in team competition with CSM Cluj Napoca. With CSM Cluj he also won four European Cups .

At the Balkan Championships between 1963 and 1971 he won a total of eight gold and five silver medals. In 1963 , 1965 , 1967 and 1973 he was nominated for participation in the world championships. He won bronze in a mixed with Maria Alexandru in 1967 .

Dorin Giurgiuca also reported successes at the European Championships, especially in the mixed competition with partner Maria Alexandru. Here the couple reached the semi-finals in 1966 and the final in 1968 .

In the ITTF world rankings , Dorin Giurgiuca was ranked 14th in 1965. In 1994 the Romanian Table Tennis Association awarded him the title Honored Master of Sports , at that time the highest honor for athletes.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
ROU  Balkan Championship  1971  Brasov  ROU   Semifinals       
ROU  Balkan Championship  1968  Skopje  YUG     silver  silver   
ROU  Balkan Championship  1966  Brasov  ROU   gold  silver  silver   
ROU  Balkan Championship  1965  Sofia  BUL   gold  gold  gold  1
ROU  Balkan Championship  1964  Athens  GRE     gold  gold  1
ROU  Balkan Championship  1963  Athens  GRE   silver       
ROU  European Championship  1968  Lyon  FRA   last 16  Quarter finals  silver   
ROU  European Championship  1966  London  CLOSELY   Quarter finals    Semifinals   
ROU  European Championship  1964  Malmo  SWE   last 16       
ROU  European Youth Championship (Juniors)  1962  Bled  YUG   gold  silver  silver   
ROU  World Championship  1973  Sarajevo  YUG   last 32  last 64  no participants  15th 
ROU  World Championship  1967  Stockholm  SWE   last 32  last 32  Semifinals  9 
ROU  World Championship  1965  Ljubljana  YUG   last 64  last 16  last 16  11 
ROU  World Championship  1963  Prague  TCH   last 32  last 16  last 32  13 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Romanian Championships in Individuals ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 3, 2015).
  2. ^ Romanian Championships in Doubles ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 3, 2015).
  3. ^ Romanian Championships in Mixed ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 3, 2015).
  4. ↑ Austrian magazine Tischtennis Schau , May 1965, page 27 (accessed on June 3, 2015).
  5. ↑ Dorin Giurgiuca results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on June 3, 2015)

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personal data
SURNAME Giurgiuca, Dorin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Mihalț
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 2013