CAROLINA MARÍN
ATHLETE PROFILE
Carolina Marin is a badminton athlete born in Huelva on June 15, 1993. She started playing badminton at the IES La Orden in her hometown and with 14 years went to live in Madrid to train in the Center of high performance of the Higher Council of Sport, after his current coach, Fernando Rivas, discovered her in a championship of Spain badminton. A year after arriving at Madrid in 2009, she got her first medals and from there she began to write her history as one of the best badminton players of history with four absolute European Championships, three absolute World Championships and the gold at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. She has also won several top international tournaments as the prestigious All England in 2015 and has become the number one player in the world in 2015, a position she has held for several months. Something that has never been seen up to date in a non-Asian player. Carolina is the youngest player in history to get a world championship at the age of 21.
TITLES OF THE ATHLETE
Olympic Games:
• Olympic Champion in Brazil 2016 (Rio de Janeiro)
World Championships:
• World Champion in 2014 (Copenhagen)
• World Champion in 2015 (Yakarta)
• World Champion in 2018 (Nankín)
Europe Championships:
• European Champion in 2014 (Russia)
• European Champion in 2016 (France)
• European Champion in 2017 (Denmark)
• European Champion in 2018 (Spain)