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Place of Birth: Târgu Ocna, Bacău County, Romania
About Dan Iuga
- Daniel "Dan" Iuga (born November 13, 1945) is a retired Romanian-American pistol shooter and coach.
- He competed for Romania in the mixed free pistol 50 m event at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1972.As a teenager Iuga played football and was a keen skier and kayaker, placing second in the 500 m kayak singles at the 1961 National Junior Championships.
- He took up sport shooting only in 1964.
- The same year he won a national junior title, and in 1971 set his first national record.
- At the 1974 World Championships he won an individual gold and a team bronze medal.
- He retired from competitions after the 1980 Olympics and was appointed as a national pistol shooting coach.
- In 1981 he defected to West Germany while giving an invited lecture there, and for 1.5 years worked as a consultant at a gun factory in Ulm.
- In 1983 he immigrated to the United States, with his wife Nina and daughters Laura (born c.
- 1975) and Ileana (born c.
- 1976) joining him there in April 1985.
- In the U.S.
- Iuga coached the national pistol shooting team starting in late 1983 and resigning in April 1992.
- In this capacity he attended the 1984 and 1988 Olympics and 1991 Pan American Games.
- In 1993 he went out of retirement and in 1995 won a U.S.
- national title.
- The same year he won two individual medals at the Pan American Games.
- He retired for good in 1999.
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