Cristina Sánchez
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Cristina Sánchez de Pablos (born 20 February 1972) is a Spanish bullfighter who gained prominence during the 1990s for being one of the first female bullfighters.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> She is the first woman to complete her alternativa in Europe.<ref name=":0" />
Career
Cristina Sánchez de Pablos was born on 20 February 1972 in Madrid, Spain.Template:Citation needed She was a professional bullfighter at bullrings in Ecuador and Mexico and undertook many presentations and demonstrations in Spain.<ref name=":0" /> She debuted as a bullfighter in Madrid on 13 February 1993.<ref name=":0" /> She took her alternativa at Nîmes on 25 May 1996. Standing as her "godfather" was Curro Romero, while José Mari Manzanares stood as witness.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Sánchez retired in 1999 and married the Portuguese banderillero Alexandre da Silva in 2000.Template:Citation needed
Sánchez was considered by some to be a representative of the feminist movement of the 1990s, as bullfighting is typically a male-dominated activity.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was also the subject of the Univision TV news program Primer Impacto, where Maria Celeste Arraras presented an article about her.
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Further reading
- "Cristina Sánchez (bullfigher)", in Outstanding Women Athletes: Who They Are and How They Influenced Sports in America by Janet Woolum (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1998), pp. 214–215