Dmitri Stratan
Dmitri Ivanovich Stratan is a Soviet and Russian water polo forward. He competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics for the Ukrainian team that finished in 12th place. At the next two Olympics he played for Russia and won a silver and bronze medal, respectively. He was also part of the Russian teams that won bronze medals at the 1997 European and 2001 world championships.
Stratan is Moldavian by birth, but in 1997 received Russian citizenship. He was born in Lviv, Ukraine, and graduated from the Institute of Physical Education there. He played for two years in Slovenia, and one year in France, and lived for some time in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast, where he played for Shturm 2002. He finally settled in Volgograd, Russia. Stratan is married and has a son Dan and a daughter Dasha.
