Gisella Bonomi

Gisella Bonomi

During the semi-finals of the Juegos Suramericanos de Playa 2019
Player information
Full name	Gisella Bonomi
birthday	March 19, 2000
place of birth	Santa Rosa
citizenship	Argentina
height	1.80 m
Playing position	Circular rotor
	Central defensive
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Club Alta Barda
National team
	Games (goals)
Argentina beach handball
Status: February 21, 2020

Gisella Bonomi (born March 19, 2000 in Santa Rosa ) is an Argentine handball player who also celebrated international successes, especially in the beach handball variant .

Career

Gisella Bonomi lives in Neuquén . She plays for Club Alta Barda in Neuquén. Her playing position is that of the circle runner , in beach handball also that of the central defensive player. In indoor handball, she was appointed to the Argentine U-14 team in 2014.

Bonomi in the semi-final of the Youth Olympic Games: Final attempt against Hungarian goalkeeper Gréta Hadfi

Bonomi in the final game of the Youth Olympic Games

Bonomi was initially a member of the Argentine national youth team in beach handball. With this she took part in the first Pan American Beach Handball Junior Championships 2017 (U 17) and won the title with her team. As the best circular runner, she was voted into the All Star Team. The tournament was also the qualification for the Beach Handball Junior World Championships 2017 in Flic-en-Flac on Mauritius . With her team she beat Paraguay and Croatia in the preliminary round, but lost to Hungary. Argentina beat Taiwan in the main round, then lost to the Netherlands. As third in the main round, she moved into the quarter-finals with Argentina, where China was initially defeated. In the semifinals they again lost to the Netherlands, in the game for third place they managed to win over Portugal and thus win the bronze medal. A year later, the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in their home country Argentina were the highlight of the season. Beach handball replaced indoor handball for the first time and was Olympic for the first time. In the preliminary round they beat the teams from Turkey, Paraguay, Venezuela and Hong Kong. Only the last group game, again against the Netherlands, was lost. In the game against Turkey she was the top scorer with 16 points, and in the other victories she was the second best scorer of her team after Caterina Benedetti . In the game against the Netherlands Bonomi was only used briefly and could not score a goal. While the games in the preliminary round were always clear issues, they became tighter in the main round, with all three games going into the shootout. After they had beaten Croatia - again Bonomi had too little time and only scored four points - they lost to the team from Hungary and then won very close against Taiwan. Against Hungary she was the best scorer with 14 points. As the third-placed team in the main round, they faced one of the two feared opponents Hungary. Although the Hungarians even scored one point more, the Argentines happily won a hard-fought game in the shootout. Together with Fiorella Corimberto , Bonomi was the best Argentine scorer of the game with ten points. In the final, the Argentines met Croatia again and defeated them with 2-0 sets. Again Bonomi was Argentina's best scorer with ten points , this time together with Carolina Ponce . She won the first Olympic gold medal in beach handball with Argentina. With 87 points she was together with Benedetti the most successful Argentine scorer of the tournament. At the Pan-American Beach Handball Junior Championships 2019 , she won the silver medal with the Argentine selection.

Bonomi throwing a goal in the finals of the 2019 South American Beach Games

Then Bonomi moved up to the national beach handball team of Argentina together with her long-time colleagues in the junior national team Carolina Ponce, Zoe Turnes , Fiorella Corimberto and Caterina Benedetti . The first international championships were the South American Beach Games 2019 in Rosario . In the preliminary round, Paraguay , Chile and Peru were beaten and the Argentines went to the semi-finals as first in the table. There Venezuela was defeated 2-0. In the final, Brazil played one of the strongest teams in the world. The final was fiercely competitive and continued right up to the shootout. It was her first international women's title. In the further course of the year Bonomi was also part of the Argentine squad for the Central and South American Championships in Beach Handball 2019 in Maricá in Brazil. With Fiorella Corimberto, Lucila Balsas and Zoe Turnes, almost half of the team was recruited from players who had won gold at the Youth Olympic Games. In the qualifying round, the representatives from Paraguay and Chile were beaten, against the Uruguayan teams and the hosts lost the Argentine team. As the third of the qualifying round they reached the semi-finals, in which Uruguay was beaten this time in the shootout. In the final, Brazil was clearly defeated, but qualified for the World Beach Games 2019 in Qatar , as Brazil was already qualified due to its placement at the last World Cup. Here Bonomi played a very good main round with Argentina, in which not only the USA and Tunisia but also the world-class teams from Denmark and Hungary were beaten. Only Brazil had to admit defeat again. In the quarter-finals Argentina had to admit defeat to the surprisingly strong team from Vietnam . In the placement games, Argentina then clearly defeated the reigning world champions Greece , then lost to Poland in the game for fifth place and came in sixth.

In February 2019 Bonomi and her team ACHA de Mar del Plata , which also included all the other gold medalists of the Youth Olympic Games, Fiorella Corimberto, Rosario Soto , Carolina Ponce, Caterina Benedetti, Lucila Balsas, Belén Aizen , Zoe Turnes and Jimena Riadigos , won the Title in the first ever Argentine beach handball summer tour. They were trained by their coach in the Argentine U-national team Leticia Brunati .

In 2018 Bonomi was awarded the Premios Pehuén , the prize of the Sports Federation of the Neuquén Province .

successes

Junior Pan American Beach Handball Championships

• 2017 : gold
• 2019 : silver

Beach handball junior world championships

• 2017 : bronze

Youth Olympic Games

• 2018 : gold

South American Beach Games

• 2019 : gold

Beach handball Central and South American Championships

• 2019 : silver

World Beach Games

• 2019 : Sixth

Argentine beach handball summer tour

• 2019: winner

Web links

Commons : Gisella Bonomi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bonomi on the website of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Spanish)
• Bonomi at argentinadorada.com.ar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CLUB ALTA BARDA deporte y salud. Retrieved February 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Panamericano Juvenil de Beach Handball. In: Federación Cordobesa de Handball. February 24, 2017, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
3. ↑ Brazil and Argentina win Youth Beach Handball Pan American Championships. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English). 
4. ^ South American Beach Games opens today. Retrieved February 19, 2020 (American English). 
5. ↑ La lista de la Selección Femenina de beach handball para el Centro-Sur Adulto de Brasil. In: Confederación Argentina de Handball. July 1, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
6. ↑ Centro-Sur Adulto de Beach Handball - Maricá, Brasil 2019 | Torneo. In: Confederación Argentina de Handball. July 11, 2019, accessed February 19, 2020 (Spanish). 
7. ↑ ACHA campeón del Summer Tour de Beach Handball | Marca Deportiva. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (Spanish). 
8. ↑ Cristian Helou: Recta final camino a los Premios Pehuén 2019 | AGUANTE NEUQUÉN. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (es-AR).