Cristina Gómez Arquer (born 22 March 1968) 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. She is the player with most caps (277) for the

Spain women's national handball team The Spain women's national handball team is governed by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation. Spain has been world and twice continental finalist. They also have won medals in the three main international competitions: one Olympi ...

. She scored 897 goals for the Spanish national team, more than any other player. She competed at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

, where Spain placed 7th, and at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

, where the Spanish team reached the quarter finals and finished 6th.

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* * * 1968 births Living people Spanish female handball players Olympic handball players for Spain Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in handball Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Handball players from Barcelona 20th-century Spanish sportswomen 21st-century Spanish sportswomen {{Spain-handball-bio-stub