Yann Bonato

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Basketball player
Yann Bonato
Bonato 2003
Player information
Full name Yann Jean Claude Bonato
birthday March 4th 1972
place of birth Cannes, France
size 201 cm
position Shooting Guard / Small Forward
college VCU
Clubs as active
1991–1993 Olympique d'Antibes 1993–1995 Paris Basket Racing 1995–1997 CSP Limoges 1997–1998 Scavolini Pesaro 1998–1999 Zucchetti Reggio Emilia 1999–2000 CSP Limoges 2000–2003 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2003–2004 CSP Limoges FranceFrance
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ItalyItaly
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National team 1
1993-2000 France 92
1 As of August 4, 2009
Yann Bonato medal table

Basketball (men)

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Olympic games
silver AustraliaAustralia Sydney 2000

Yann Jean Claude Bonato (born March 4, 1972 in Cannes ) is a former French basketball player .

career

Bonato, whose father Jean-Claude Bonato was a French international in the 1960s and 1970s, played in the youth division of Olympique d'Antibes before moving to the United States : in the 1988/89 season he was part of West Florence High School (state South Carolina ) and South Wayne High School (State of North Carolina ) in 1989/90 . He spent his third year in the USA at Virginia Commonwealth University (22 games, 3.8 points / game in the 1990/91 season). In 1991 Bonato made his debut in the French top division, the Ligue Nationale de Basket, in Antibes .

With his move to the capital club PSG Racing in 1993, his position in the league changed. Bonato scored an average of 21.4 points for Paris in the 1993/94 season, making it the third-best French scorer in the league that season. In 1995 he was named the best local player in the top French league after he had reached the third best value in the league in the 1994/95 game year with 23.3 points per game. In 1995 he accepted an offer from Cercle Saint-Pierre Limoges . There he underpinned his position as an outstanding scorer and was named the best player of the season in 1995 and 1997.

From 1997 to 1999 Bonato played in Italy . In 1997/98 he achieved an average of 14.1 per match at Scavolini Pesaro, and 17.2 at Zucchetti Reggio Emilia in 1998/99.

He won with Cercle Saint-Pierre from Limoges , to which he had returned after two years in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A , in the 1999/2000 season the French championship, the cup competition and the European club competition Korać Cup . Subsequently, Bonato moved with the French national team at the 2000 Olympic Games despite three defeats in the preliminary round up to the final, in which they again lost to the defending champions United States and won a silver medal as in the preliminary round . A year later, Bonato again won the “Coupe de France” cup competition with ASVEL, before winning another championship in France with the 2002 record champions. In 2004 Bonato ended his playing career after suffering from mononucleosis at the age of 32. Between 1993 and 2000 he played 92 international matches for France, in 1993, 1995 and 1997 he was part of France's squad at the European Championship finals. At the European Championships in 1995, Bonato was the third best scorer of the tournament with 21.7 points per match.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. [1] (French)
  2. ^ Jean-Claude Bonato profile, European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men 1976. Accessed June 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ Yann Bonato: “Sur un terrain, la trouille ne faisait pas partie du program! »| LNB.fr. Retrieved June 21, 2020 (French).
  4. ^ VCU Career Statistics - Career History. Accessed June 21, 2020 (English).
  5. Statistiques Joueur | LNB.fr; Yann Bonato. Retrieved June 21, 2020 (French).
  6. TOP By Stat Players - JEEP® ELITE | LNB.fr. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  7. TOP By Stat Players - JEEP® ELITE | LNB.fr. Retrieved June 21, 2020 (French).
  8. a b Yann Bonato | FFBB. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  9. ^ Bonato Yann - Statistiche INDIVIDUALI. In: LEGABASKET SERIE A. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  10. ^ Linguasport - Korać Cup (C3) (B). Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  11. archive.fiba.com: 1995 European Championship for Men: France. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .