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Popescu Dumitru, Physical education teacher Coach with Merit of Distinction. Craiova
He has devoted his whole life to the promotion of Romanian fencing
His students -among them the world champion Loredana Iordchioiu -
achieved medal winning titles at European and world championships
He trained coaches of international reputation as well.
Due to a recent accident
I will speak on behalf of Mr. Popescu Dumitru
Mr. Dumitru is the mentor of the young generation of coaches of our school specializing in physical education
deputy director
he is the role model of our athletes.
After his long career as an athelete, he achieved outstanding results
as a coach in recent years
both at the national and the international levels.
His whole life was truly devoted to this field.
I am very happy to have him among us
and that he passes on to us more and more of his knowledge on the sport of fencing.
For me Mr. Dumitru Popescu is not simply a coach.
national champion
For me he is my mentor, a parent that raised me during my school years
and with whom I spent my university years in the fencing hall.
Both my colleagues and I attribute
most of our good results to him.
This award is of paramount importance to me
since it is the recognition of a lifetime effort.
It is an award that is given once in a lifetime and
that surpasses all other awards that I received previously.
All of those could be repeated.
But this award gives me strength to move on, to stay in the fencing hall,
to keep being useful for this sport
to which I devoted my whole life.