Alexandra Priscila do Nascimento Martínez (born 16 September 1981) is a Brazilian handball player. She played in the Brazilian national team. She is a world champion from 2013, the first in history Brazil won the title. In 2012 she was named IHF World Player of the Year, the first South American, male or female, to win the award.
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. 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.
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.
Hungary In 2016 she joined Hungarian Ipress Center-Vác. A year later she joined Alba Fehérvár KC. In 2019 she joined Érd HC.
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.
In February 2022 she announced her retirement and the fact that she was pregnant at the same time. 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. With the club she won the 2024 EHF European League. After the 2023-24 she announced her retirement for a third time, 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.
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.Best in world in 2012, Alexandra Nascimento dreams of winning a medal at Rio 2016 , Rio 2016, Retrieved 5 August 2016
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: Winner: 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 World Championship: Winner: 2013 Pan American Championship: Winner: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013 Silver Medalist: 2009 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.
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