Birth Date: | 1960 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Treviso, Italy |
Ru Position: | Lock |
Years1: | 1980-1993 |
Clubs1: | Benetton Treviso |
Repyears1: | 1981-1988 |
Repcaps1: | 45 |
Reppoints1: | 36 |
Coachteams1: | Benetton Treviso |
Coachteams2: | Udine Rugby |
Coachteams3: | Benetton Treviso(under-20) |
Coachyears1: | 1993-1997 |
Coachyears2: | 1997-1999 |
Coachyears3: | 2015-2010 |
Gianni Zanon (born 3 March 1960 in Treviso) is a former Italian rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a flanker.
Zanon started his career at Tarvisium, where he played until 1979/80. He moved then to Benetton Treviso, where he stayed from 1980/81 to 1992/93. He won three Italian Championship titles, in 1982/83, 1988/89 and 1991/92.
He had 45 caps for Italy, from 1981 to 1991, scoring 9 tries, 36 points on aggregate. He was called for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, playing in a single game, and for the 1991 Rugby World Cup, where he was the captain, playing in two games. He never scored in either occasions.[1]
After finishing his player career, he became a coach. He was one of the two head coaches of Benetton Rugby Treviso, with Oscar Collodo, from 1993/94 to 1996/97, winning the National Championship in 1996/97. He was the coach of Udine Rugby, from 1997/98 to 1998/99. He returned to Benetton Rugby in 2005/06, being in charge of the second team and of the U-16 and U-20 categories, until 2009/10. In 2010, he was nominated technical coordinator of the youth categories.