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Nuria Martínez Prat (born February 29, 1984) is a Spanish professional
2005 Eurobasket
* 8th 2006 World Championship
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2007 Eurobasket
* 5th 
2010 World Championship
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2014 World Championship
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Player profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez, Nuria 1984 births Living people Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi basketball players Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Guards (basketball) Minnesota Lynx players Olympic basketball players for Spain Sportspeople from Mataró Basketball players from the Province of Barcelona Spanish expatriate basketball people in Turkey Spanish expatriate basketball people in the United States Spanish expatriate basketball people in Russia Spanish expatriate basketball people in Italy Spanish women's basketball players Sportswomen from Catalonia 21st-century Spanish sportswomen
basketball
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player for Spar CityLift Girona.
Club career
Martínez made her debut in the Spanish top tier Liga Femenina in hometown club UB-Barça in 2002, soon signing for powerhouseCB Avenida
Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto formerly C.B. Halcón Viajes, is a women's professional basketball team based in Salamanca, Spain. The team currently plays in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto.
In 2011 Perfumerías Avenida won the Euroleague Women, ...
, where she won the 2005-06 Spanish League and Cup. She played one game for WNBA team Minnesota Lynx
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in 2005. Martínez spent the following ten seasons mostly playing abroad in Russia (Dynamo Moscow
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, Turkey ( Kayseri Kaski, Galatasaray S.K.) and Italy ( Liomatic Umbertide, PF Schio
Pallacanestro Femminile Schio, also known as Beretta Famila Schio for sponsorship reasons, is an Italian professional women's basketball team based in Schio that competes in Serie A1 (women's basketball), Serie A.
Team history
Founded in 1973, ...
, with just one season in Spain at Ros Casares Valencia and a second summer at Minnesota Lynx
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, playing 15 games in the 2010 WNBA season
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.
In 2017 she returned to Spain to play at Spar CityLift Girona.
WNBA career statistics
Regular season
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National team
She made her debut withSpain women's national basketball team
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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. She participated in two Olympic Games
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, three World Championships
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and in four European Championships
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* 1999 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship
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* 6th 2000 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship
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All-Star Five
* Tony Parker
* Beno Udrih
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* 5th 2002 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship
The 2002 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was an international basketball competition held in Germany in 2002.
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* 2003 Eurobasket
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* 6th 2004 Summer Olympics
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* 2005 Eurobasket
* 8th 2006 World Championship
* 2007 Eurobasket
* 5th 2008 Summer Olympics
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* 2010 World Championship
* 2014 World Championship
* 2015 Eurobasket
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References
External links
Player profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez, Nuria 1984 births Living people Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi basketball players Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Guards (basketball) Minnesota Lynx players Olympic basketball players for Spain Sportspeople from Mataró Basketball players from the Province of Barcelona Spanish expatriate basketball people in Turkey Spanish expatriate basketball people in the United States Spanish expatriate basketball people in Russia Spanish expatriate basketball people in Italy Spanish women's basketball players Sportswomen from Catalonia 21st-century Spanish sportswomen