José María Márquez Coloma, better known as Chema Márquez (born 20 December 1996) is a Spanish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for the French club Saint-Raphaël Var Handball and the Spanish national team. In 2022, he won silver medals at the

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with the Spanish team.

Career

Chema Márquez started his career at Quabit Guadalajara. In 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons he was back-to-back top scorer in the Spanish

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with 200 and 196 goals respectively. In 2020 he joined league rivals Fraikin BM Granollers. In the 2021–22 season he once again became the league top scorer. He finished 2nd that season, behind

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. In 2022 he joined French team Saint-Raphaël Var Handball. In 2023 he prolonged his contract until 2026.

National team

Chema Márquez debuted for the Spanish national team on June 14, 2017, against Bosnia-Herzegovina. Prior to that he had played 37 games for the Spanish youth national team. With them he won the U-20 European Championship in 2016 and U-21 World Championship in 2017. He won silver medals at the 2022 European Championship with the Spanish team. During the tournament he played 4 games and scored 10 goals. Spain lost the final to Sweden 27:26. At the

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he won gold medals with the Spanish team.

Private life

His older brother, Alejandro Márquez Coloma, also plays handball. His father, Ricardo, was also a handballer.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Márquez, Chema 1996 births Living people Spanish male handball players Liga ASOBAL players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen Spanish expatriate handball players in France Handball players from Madrid