Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a professional badminton player from Spain. She is the Olympic Champion, two time World Champion, four time European Champion and the former World No. 1 in BWF rankings for the women's singles. Carolina Marín is currently ranked No. 5 in the World by Badminton World Federation. She became the World Champion in women's singles two times in a row in 2014 and 2015.. She won her first Olympics gold medal in women's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In June 2017, she was appointed as the Brand ambassador of Meliá Hotels International. She was also appointed the brand ambassador of football major LaLiga for its promotion in other countries.
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Badminton career
Carolina started playing badminton at the IES La Orden badminton club in Huelva. In 2009, she became the first Spanish badminton player to win a silver medal first, at the 2009 European Junior Badminton Championships, and a gold medal later, at the 2009 European U17 Badminton Championships.
Carolina played for the Bangalore-based team Banga Beats in the inaugural edition of the Indian Badminton League (IBL) in 2013.
She was the first Spanish badminton player to win a Grand Prix Gold title after winning the 2013 London Grand Prix Gold.
On 31 August 2014 she defeated Li Xuerui from China in the BWF World Championships singles final and became the first Spaniard to win a World Championship title and the third European female player to achieve the gold medal, after Lene Køppen (1977) and Camilla Martin (1999). Aged only 21, she became the youngest European world champion ever.
On 8 March 2015, she won the All England, her first Superseries Premier title in her first Superseries Premier final After defeating Saina Nehwal in the Final with score 16-21, 21-14, 21-7. The title propelled her to rank number 4 in the world ranking and, for the first time, no. 1 in the Superseries standing.
At 2015 India Open, she had the chance to unseat Li Xuerui as the new world no. 1. However, she narrowly lost to Thai prodigy Ratchanok Intanon in a close three game match at the semi-final stage. Carolina rose to a career high of no.2 in the world ranking on 2 April 2015.
On 5 April 2015, Carolina Marín won her second straight Super Series Premier title, beating Olympic champion Li Xuerui for the second consecutive time at the 2015 Malaysia Open with score 19-21, 21-19, 21-17.
On 16 August 2015, she defended her title at the World Championship by beating Saina Nehwal of India in 21-16, 21-19.
2015 is the golden year for Carolina Marín where in addition to defending the World Championship title, she also won other Super Series titles such as the 2015 Australian Open, 2015 French Open, and 2015 Hong Kong Open.
On 19 August 2016, she won a gold medal by beating India's P.V Sindhu in the singles final at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio, Brazil with a score of 19-21, 21-12, 21-15. An indoor arena in Huelva is named after her honour, with Marín herself attending the inauguration.
In 2017, Carolina Marín won the Japan Open Superseries title after beating He Bingjiao of China in the final, winning a superseries title after almost two years.
In the Yonex Sunrise Hong Kong Open, which took place late November 2017, Carolina Marín retired to Michelle Li, losing 21-19, 13-21, 8-11, due to a hip injury that she sustained during the match. Marín later announced on Twitter and Instagram that, due to her hip injury, she would not be participating in the season ending Dubai World Superseries Finals.
She won her fourth consecutive European Championships title in a row at the Huelva 2018 European Championships hosted at Huelva, Andalucia.
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Achievements
Olympic Games
Women's singles
World Championships
Women's singles
European Championships
Women's singles
BWF Superseries
The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two levels: Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.
Women's singles
- BWF Superseries Finals tournament
- BWF Superseries Premier tournament
- BWF Superseries tournament
BWF Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix has two level such as Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.
Women's singles
- BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
- BWF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's singles
- BWF International Challenge tournament
- BWF International Series tournament
Individual junior titles (2)
Runners-up (1)
Record against selected opponents
Women's Singles results against World Superseries finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists, as well as all Olympic opponents.
Last revised: September 26, 2017
References
External links
- Carolina MARÍN at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
- Carolina MARÍN at BWFbadminton.com
- Official website
- Official Blog
- Products and Merchandising official of Carolina Marín
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