Alexandra do Nascimento
| Alexandra do Nascimento | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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do Nascimento in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento Martínez | ||
| Born |
16 September 1981 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 | |||
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]
Career
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
- Austrian League:
- Winner: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
- Austrian Cup:
- Winner: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
- Romanian League:
- Finalist: 2015
- Romanian Cup:
- Winner: 2015
- EHF Champions League:
- Finalist: 2008
- Semifinalist: 2005, 2007, 2009
- EHF Cup Winners' Cup
- Winner: 2013
- Runners-up: 2004
- EHF Champions Trophy
- Runners-up: 2008
- Baia Mare Champions Trophy:
- Winner: 2014
- Pan American Games:
- World Championship:
- Winner: 2013
- Pan American Championship:
- South American Championship:
- Winner: 2013
- Provident Cup:
- Winner: 2013
Awards and recognition
- World Championship Top Scorer: 2011
- World Championship Second Best Scorer: 2013
- EHF Champions League Second Best Scorer: 2010
- All-Star Right Wing of the Summer Olympics: 2012
- IHF World Player of the Year – Women: 2012
- Austrian Handball Federation Right Wing of the Year – Women: 2013
- Most Valuable Player Pan American Championship: 2013
Personal life
Since July 2011, she is married to Chilean international handballer, Patricio Martínez.[15]
References
- ^ "Alexandra do Nascimento Profile". European Handball Federation. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Brazil World Champions for the first time". ihf.info. 22 December 2013. Archived from the original on 24 December 2013.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Alexandra do Nascimento and Daniel Narcisse are GRUNDFOS World Handball Players of the Year 2012". International Handball Federation. 8 January 2013.
- ^ "Ale Nascimento verlässt Handballclub HYPO NÖ". hypo-noe.at (in German). Hypo Niederösterreich. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "Nascimento Vácra jön" (in Hungarian). handball.hu. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
- ^ "Nascimento skifter til Alba Fehérvár KC" (in Danish). europamester.dk. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ "Világbajnok kézilabdázót igazolt az Érd" (in Hungarian). origo.hu. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Drei Jugendspielerinnen bleiben - Erd HC mit radikalem Umbruch" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- ^ "Frühere Welthandballerin Do Nascimento wechselt nach Frankreich" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Enceinte, Alexandra Do Nascimento (Bourg-de-Péage) prend sa retraite" (in French). ledauphine.com. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Altas y bajas para la temporada 2024-25". balonmano.info.
- ^ "Topscorer" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^ "Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento profile" (in Portuguese). timebrasil.cob.org.br. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
External links
- Alexandra do Nascimento at the European Handball Federation
- Alexandra do Nascimento at the Brazilian Olympic Committee (in Portuguese)
- Alexandra do Nascimento at Olympedia