Joonas Vaino (born 22 April 1992) is an Estonian professional

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player. He is currently playing for Finnish club

Namika Lahti Namika Lahti was a basketball club based in Lahti, Finland. The club played in the Korisliiga, the top Finnish championship league. The club was established in 1898 in Vyborg and moved to Lahti in 1947. In 2015, the club was dissolved, after econom ...

at the power forward position.

Club career

Joonas Vaino came through youth ranks to play first-tier basketball for

BC Rakvere Tarvas BC Rakvere Tarvas is a professional basketball club based in Rakvere, Estonia. The team plays in the Latvian–Estonian Basketball League. Their home arena is the Rakvere Sports Hall. Tarvas was relegated to the third Estonian division in 2017 ...

and made his debut in

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when he was 16 years old. In his first year, he spent most of the time on the bench, because his season was marred with injuries. The following season he joined

Korisliiga The Korisliiga is the top-tier professional basketball league in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In its current format, each team plays all other teams two times in the regular season, once at home and once away, for a total o ...

team LrNMKY though, where he stayed for a season. He rejoined the hometown team which had reached the finals during his Finnish year, and played there for two seasons. Since 2012, he has been playing with

International career

Vaino has been a member of many youth national teams with his native Estonia. With U20 team, they managed to get promotion to the

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A division, defeating Belgium U20 on their way to the final, but lost to

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team.

Honours

Korvpalli Meistriliiga The Korvpalli Meistriliiga ( en, Basketball Champions League), known as the OlyBet Korvpalli Meistriliiga for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier level and most important professional basketball league in Estonia. It is controlled by the Est ...

**3rd place: 2011-12 *

Estonian Basketball Cup The Estonian Cup ( et, Eesti karikas), also known as the Paf SuperCup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual cup competition for Estonian basketball teams. It is organized by the Estonian Basketball Association. Until the 2000–01 season, the cu ...

**Runner-up: 2010–11 **3rd place: 2011-12 * BBL Challenge Cup **Runner-up: 2011-12

External links

Profile
at basket.ee
Profile
at bbl.net
Profile
at bctarvas.ee

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaino, Joonas 1992 births Living people Estonian men's basketball players Korvpalli Meistriliiga players Namika Lahti players Power forwards