Peyo Hontas


Pierre "Peyo" Hontas is a French former international rugby union player.
A native of Biarritz, Hontas was a speedy Biarritz Olympique winger, who excelled in 400 metres races.
Hontas France [rugby union tour">France national rugby union team">France [rugby union tour of New Zealand|toured New Zealand] with France [national rugby union team|France] in 1989 and had his ear badly torn in the tour match against Wellington, requiring 25 stitches. He didn't play against the All Blacks and won his first cap in the next year's Five Nations. Capped nine times in total, Hontas appeared in all of France's matches in their winning 1993 Five Nations campaign.