Club Balonmano Mar Alicante is a Spanish
team handball
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club from
Alicante
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, that plays in Segunda División Nacional, the 3rd-tier handball league for women in Spain. Founded in 1996, the team has achieved its best results in recent years. They were the runners-up of the 2010 Spanish Cup and Supercup and the 2011
Cup Winners' Cup
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(in their second international appearance following their debut in the 2010
EHF Cup
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),
Profile and record
in the European Handball Federation
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's website falling short to SD Itxako and Ferencvárosi TC
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respectively.
Honours
* Copa ABF: 1
**''Winners'': 2010–11
*EHF Cup Winners' Cup
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Winners
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**''Runners-up'': 2011
*Copa de la Reina
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**''Runners-up'': 2010
* Supercopa de España: 0
**''Runners-up'': 2010
Season to season
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*15 seasons in División de Honor
Notable players
* Vanesa Amorós
* Nuria Benzal
Nuria Benzal Andaloussi (born 3 April 1985) is a Spanish handball player who most recently played for Üsküdar Bld. SK and formerly was a member of the Spanish women's national team.
Benzal was part of the Spanish team at the 2008 European W ...
* Laima Bernatavičiūtė
* Mercedes Castellanos
* Véronique Démonière
* Fabiana Diniz
* Marizza Faría
* Beatriz Fernández
Beatriz Fernández Ibáñez (born 19 March 1985) is a former Spanish handball player who was member of the Spanish national team.
Fernández played on the Spanish team at the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship, where Spain reached ...
* Anna Manaut
* Carmen Martín
* María Muñoz
* María Núñez
* Isabel Ortuño
Isabel María Ortuño Torrico (born 16 March 1982) is a former Spanish handballer, who have been capped for the Spanish national team.
Ortuño was born in Elda, Spain, and competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she finished sixt ...
* Linda Pradel
* Ana de Sousa
* Anna Vicente
* Ekaterina Zhukova
* Marianne Storkås
References
External links
Official Website
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Handball clubs in Spain
Handball clubs established in 1996
Sport in Alicante
Sports clubs and teams in the Valencian Community