24 Facts About Carolina Marin

Carolina Maria Marin Martin was born on 15 June 1993 and is a Spanish professional badminton player.

Carolina Marin is an Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, six-time European Champion, and the former World's No 1 in BWF rankings for the women's singles discipline, holding the World No 1 title for 66 weeks.

Carolina Marin has become the World Champions in the women's singles three times, winning in 2014,2015, and 2018, thereby becoming the first-ever female badminton athlete to have achieved this feat.

Carolina Marin has consecutively won the European Championships title six times, in 2014,2016,2017,2018,2021 and 2022.

Carolina Marin won the Olympics gold medal in women's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

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Carolina Marin in her earlier childhood was a keen Flamenco dancer.

Carolina Marin learned of badminton when a friend introduced her to the sport.

Carolina Marin fell in love with the sport, and decided to stop dancing and play badminton wholeheartedly.

Carolina Marin says she had to leave her hometown and her family at a very young age to travel all the way to Madrid for training at National Centre.

Carolina Marin won her first major title at the Irish International tournament coming through the qualification stage and beating the Dutch player Rachel Van Cutsen in the final with the rubber game.

Carolina Marin competed at the World Junior Championships in Taipei, reaching the semi-finals, but lost to Elisabeth Purwaningtyas of Indonesia and settled for the bronze medal.

Carolina Marin made history by becoming the first non-Asian to win the Olympic badminton women's singles gold medal.

In 2017, Carolina Marin won the Japan Open Superseries title after beating He Bingjiao of China in the final, winning a Superseries title after almost two years.

Carolina Marin 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.

Carolina Marin began her 2019 season with a runner-up effort at the Malaysia Masters, where she lost to Ratchanok Intanon in straight games.

Carolina Marin subsequently retired from the match and underwent the ACL reconstruction surgery as soon as she was flown back to Madrid the same day.

Carolina Marin had a recovery for four months, dedicate 10 hours a day to rehabilitation between the physical and technical, with morning and afternoon physiotherapy sessions, and swimming pool work.

In September, after an eight-month break forced by the injury, Carolina Marin returned to competition at the 2019 Vietnam Open but suffered an opening round defeat to Supanida Katethong.

Carolina Marin further won Syed Modi and Italian International tournaments later in the year.

Carolina Marin started the 2020 season at the Southeast Asian tour on a positive note; reaching the semi-finals of Malaysia Masters where she lost to Chen Yufei.

Carolina Marin continued her good form and thereafter reached the semi-finals of Thailand Masters, which she lost to top seed Akane Yamaguchi in a close rubber game.

Carolina Marin planned to compete at the All England Open but pulled out of the competition due to an injury she suffered in the first round of the Swiss Open.

Carolina Marin made history as the first-ever player to claim five consecutive titles at the European Championships, defeating young Dane Line Christophersen in the final.

Carolina Marin was expected to defend her title at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but was forced to withdraw due to knee injury she suffered in June while training.