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Alexandra do Nascimento

Brazilian handball player (born 1981) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alexandra do Nascimento

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is do Nascimento and the second or paternal family name is Martínez.

Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento Martínez (born 16 September 1981) is a Brazilian former handball player. She played in the Brazilian national team.[1] She is a world champion from 2013, the first in history Brazil won the title.[2]

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Full name Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento Martínez
Born (1981-09-16) 16 September 1981 (age 43)
Limeira, Brazil
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Right wing
Senior clubs
Years Team
 Jundiai
–2003
 Guarulhos
2003–2014
 Hypo Niederösterreich
2014–2016
 HCM Baia Mare
2016–2017
 Váci NKSE
2017–2019
 Alba Fehérvár KC
2019–2020
 Érd NK
2020–2022
 Bourg-de-Péage DHB
2022–
 CB Elche
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2021
 Brazil 212 (733)
Medal record
World Championship
2013 Serbia
Pan American Games
2003 Dominican RepublicTeam
2007 Rio de JaneiroTeam
2011 GuadalajaraTeam
2015 TorontoTeam
Pan American Championship
2003 Brazil
2005 Brazil
2007 Brazil
2011 Brazil
2013 Dominican Republic
2009 Chile
South American Championship
2013 Argentina
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Youth career

She was born in 1981 in Limeira (São Paulo) but she soon moved to Espírito Santo where she grew up. She started playing handball aged 10.

Hypo NÖ

She moved to Austria in 2004 to join Hypo NÖ, a club that is noted for having many Brazilian national team players.[3] Here she won the Austrian championship and cup double 10 times in a row from 2004 to 2014. In 2008 she reached the final of the Champions League, where they lost to Russian Zvezda Zvenigorod. In 2013 she won the EHF Cup Winners' Cup with the club.

In 2012, she was the first Brazilian handballer to be voted IHF World Player of the Year.[4]

Romania

On 14 February 2014 she announced that she would leave Hypo NÖ, and together with Bárbara Arenhart she joined Romanian HCM Baia Mare on a two year contract.[5]

Hungary

In 2016 she joined Hungarian Ipress Center-Vác.[6] A year later she joined Alba Fehérvár KC.[7] In 2019 she joined Érd HC.[8]

Retirements and comebacks

At the end of the 2019-2020 season, she announced her retirement, but quickly reconsidered and joined French side Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball.[9][10]

In February 2022 she announced her retirement and the fact that she was pregnant at the same time.[11] In October 2022 she came back to handball for a second time and joined Spanish side Club Balonmano Elche, where she made her debut for the club on 28 December 2022.[12] With the club she won the 2024 EHF European League. After the 2023-24 she announced her retirement for a third time,[13] but would once again come back. This time she joined Italian AC Life Style Handball Erice in January 2025.

National team

At the 2011 World Championship at home soil she was the top scorer at the tournament with 57 goals.[14]

In 2016, she was chosen for the third time to be in Brazil's Olympic handball team. She was the top scorer in her first two games.[3]

Achievements

Awards and recognition

Personal life

Since July 2011, she is married to Chilean international handballer, Patricio Martínez.[15]

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