Nuria Martínez
No. 1 – Spar CityLift Girona | |
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Position | Guard |
League | EuroCup Women LF |
Personal information | |
Born | Mataró, Barcelona | February 29, 1984
Nationality | Spanish |
Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Listed weight | 167 lb (76 kg) |
Career information | |
WNBA draft | 2004 / Round: 3 / Pick: 36th overall |
Selected by the Sacramento Monarchs | |
Playing career | 2002–present |
Career history | |
2002–2003 | UB-Barça |
2003–2006 | Perfumerías Avenida |
2005 | Minnesota Lynx |
2007–2008 | Dynamo Moscow |
2008–2009 | Famila Wüber Schio |
2009–2010 | Bracco Geas |
2010 | Minnesota Lynx |
2010–2011 | Ros Casares Valencia |
2011–2012 | Liomatic Umbertide |
2012–2014 | Kayseri Kaski Spor |
2014–2016 | Galatasaray |
2016–2017 | Famila Wüber Schio |
2017–present | Spar CityLift Girona |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Nuria Martínez Prat (born February 29, 1984) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Spar CityLift Girona.
Club career[edit]
Martínez made her debut in the Spanish top tier Liga Femenina in hometown club UB-Barça in 2002, soon signing for powerhouse CB Avenida, where she won the 2005-06 Spanish League and Cup. She played one game for WNBA team Minnesota Lynx in 2005. Martínez spent the following ten seasons mostly playing abroad[1] in Russia (Dynamo Moscow, Turkey (Kayseri Kaski, Galatasaray S.K.) and Italy[2] (Liomatic Umbertide, PF Schio, with just one season in Spain at Ros Casares Valencia and a second summer at Minnesota Lynx, playing 15 games in the 2010 WNBA season.
In 2017 she returned to Spain to play at Spar CityLift Girona.[3][4][5]
National team[edit]
She made her debut with Spain women's national basketball team at the age of 17. She played with the senior team for 15 years, from 2001 to 2015, with a total of 145 caps and 4 PPG.[6] She participated in two Olympic Games,[7] three World Championships and in four European Championships:[8]
- 1999 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
- 6th 2000 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
- 5th 2002 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
- 2003 Eurobasket
- 6th 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2005 Eurobasket
- 8th 2006 World Championship
- 2007 Eurobasket
- 5th 2008 Summer Olympics
- 2010 World Championship
- 2014 World Championship
- 2015 Eurobasket
References[edit]
- ^ "ACB.COM - Núria Martínez: La aventurera del baloncesto". www.acb.com. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ "Stats in Italy".
- ^ "NÚRIA MARTÍNEZ: "ME HACE MUCHA ILUSIÓN VOLVER A JUGAR EN CASA"". lokosxelbaloncestofemenino.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ "El Spar CityLift Girona ficha a la base Nuria Martínez". www.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ "Federación Española de Baloncesto - Competiciones FEB". competiciones.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ "Nuria Martínez Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
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- Living people
- Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi basketball players
- Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players from Catalonia
- Guards (basketball)
- Minnesota Lynx players
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- People from Mataró
- Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
- Spanish expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Spanish women's basketball players