Cristina Sanchez wanted to become a bullfighter instead of a hairdresser and when she was eighteen her parents sent her to a bullfighting school in Madrid.
 Sanchez has been the most successful novice in Spain and is very popular with the crowds. Out of the ring, Sanchez does not look like a matador.She seems to move much more like a dancer than an athlete, but in the ring she is all power. 
 Sanchez's father warned her that the world of bullfighting was hard enough for a man and even harder for a woman and she agreed with him.
 Sanchez lives with her family in Parla, south of Madrid. Her family is everything to her and is the main support in her life.
When Sanchez is not fighting she has a tough fitness routine - running, working out in the gym and practising with her father in the afternoon.She doesn't drink, smoke or socialise.Sanchez spends most of the year travelling.Sanchez is managed by Simon Casas, who says, "At the moment there is no limit to where she can go. She has a champion's mentality, as well as courage and technique."