Cristina Sánchez
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Cristina Sánchez de Pablos (born February 20, 1972 in Madrid) is a famous former bullfighter. She is better known plainly as Cristina Sánchez.
Sánchez enjoyed international fame: She was successful at bullrings in Ecuador and Mexico and is one of the most well recognized bullfighters at home. She debuted as a bullfighter in Madrid on February 13, 1993, exactly one week before her twenty-first birthday.
During her career in Spain, she cut a total of 316 bull ears. She retired in 1999 and got married in 2000 to the Portuguese banderillero Alejandro da Silva.
Sánchez was viewed by many as an example of the feminist movement of the 1990s; bullfighting is typically a male-dominated sport, and Sánchez became one of the first prominent female bullfighters in the sport (or "matadoras"). Her fame even reached the United States, where Maria Celeste Arraras showed an article on her on the Primer Impacto Univision television show.
