Alexandra do Nascimento

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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is do Nascimento and the second or paternal family name is Martínez.
Alexandra do Nascimento
do Nascimento in 2016
Personal information
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
 Brazil Guarulhos
2003–2014
 Austria Hypo Niederösterreich
2014–2016
 Romania HCM Baia Mare
2016–2017
 Hungary Váci NKSE
2017–2019
 Hungary Alba Fehérvár KC
2019–2020
 Hungary Érd NK
2020–2022
 France Bourg-de-Péage DHB
2022–
 Spain CB Elche
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2021
 Brazil 212 (733)
Medal record
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2013 Serbia
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2003 Dominican Republic Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Team
Pan American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2003 Brazil
Gold medal – first place 2005 Brazil
Gold medal – first place 2007 Brazil
Gold medal – first place 2011 Brazil
Gold medal – first place 2013 Dominican Republic
Silver medal – second place 2009 Chile
South American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2013 Argentina

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.

Career

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Youth career

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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

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She moved to Austria in 2004 to join Hypo NÖ, a club that is noted for having many Brazilian national team players.[2] 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.[3]

Romania

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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.[4]

Hungary

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In 2016 she joined Hungarian Ipress Center-Vác.[5] A year later she joined Alba Fehérvár KC.[6] In 2019 she joined Érd HC.[7]

Retirements and comebacks

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At the end of the 2019-2020 season, she announced her retirement, but quickly reconsidered and joined French side Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball.[8][9]

In February 2022 she announced her retirement and the fact that she was pregnant at the same time.[10] 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.[11] With the club she won the 2024 EHF European League. After the 2023-24 she announced her retirement for a third time,[12] but would once again come back. This time she joined Italian AC Life Style Handball Erice in January 2025.

National team

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At the 2011 World Championship at home soil she was the top scorer at the tournament with 57 goals.[13]

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.[2]

Achievements

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Awards and recognition

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Personal life

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Since July 2011, she is married to Chilean international handballer, Patricio Martínez.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "Alexandra do Nascimento Profile". European Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b Best in world in 2012, Alexandra Nascimento dreams of winning a medal at Rio 2016 Archived 9 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Rio 2016, Retrieved 5 August 2016
  3. ^ "Alexandra do Nascimento and Daniel Narcisse are GRUNDFOS World Handball Players of the Year 2012". International Handball Federation. 8 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Ale Nascimento verlässt Handballclub HYPO NÖ". hypo-noe.at (in German). Hypo Niederösterreich. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Nascimento Vácra jön" (in Hungarian). handball.hu. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Nascimento skifter til Alba Fehérvár KC" (in Danish). europamester.dk. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Világbajnok kézilabdázót igazolt az Érd" (in Hungarian). origo.hu. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  8. ^ "Drei Jugendspielerinnen bleiben - Erd HC mit radikalem Umbruch" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Frühere Welthandballerin Do Nascimento wechselt nach Frankreich" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Enceinte, Alexandra Do Nascimento (Bourg-de-Péage) prend sa retraite" (in French). ledauphine.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  11. ^ "El BM Elche sí concilia: facilita que Do Nascimento viaje con su hija de cuatro meses" (in Spanish). Marca. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  12. ^ "Altas y bajas para la temporada 2024-25". balonmano.info.
  13. ^ "Topscorer" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
  14. ^ "Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento profile" (in Portuguese). timebrasil.cob.org.br. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
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