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Carolina Marín is a professional badminton player from Spain. Additionally, Carolina Marín is an Olympic gold medalist, three-time world champion, six-time European champion and former world number one in the BWF women’s singles ranking, having held the title for 66 weeks.
Early life
Carolina María Marín Martín, better known as Carolina Marín, was born on June 15, 1993, in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain. According to her date of birth, she is 29 years and has Spanish nationality.
Furthermore, he has the birth sign Gemini and belongs to Caucasian ethnicity. And she believes in Christianity for religion. She is the daughter of Gonzalo Marín Pérez (father) and Antonia Martín Romera (mother).
Her mother was a flamenco dancer, so she followed in her footsteps before becoming a badminton player. However, there is no information about her siblings. Her interest in badminton changed at the age of eight, after a friend introduced her to it.
Education
Regarding his educational background, Marín has made no public statements about his educational credentials. Furthermore, we could believe that he has a degree from a renowned Spanish institution.
civil status
Talking about her personal life, she is currently single and unmarried. But in the past she was in a relationship with her boyfriend, Alejandro. There is no exact information about why they broke up. At the moment, this badminton player is not part of controversies or rumors.
Career
Carolina Marn made her international badminton debut in 2005 at the U15 international tournament in Brussels. She began her professional badminton career in 2009, after winning the U17 European Championship and the U19 European Championship.
Likewise, she became the first Spanish badminton player to win gold and silver medals. She then participated in the 2013 Asian Cup. She made notable achievements with the Banglore Indian teams in the inaugural season of the Badminton Indian League, due to the inherent and tenacious skills of her.
Later that year, she became the first Spanish badminton player to win the Grand Prix Gold title when she won the London Grand Prix Gold tournament.
Main achievements
He first experienced success in his badminton career at the 2014 World Championships in Copenhagen. As the ninth seeded player, she defeated China’s Li Xuerui, the world’s best female player and gold medalist.
In the World Championship she surpassed the Chinese player and became the first Spanish player to win the gold medal. Additionally, she won the European Championship in April 2014 at the age of 21 and became the third European woman to win the gold medal.
Photo caption: Carolina Marín playing a badminton game (Source: Instagram)
With his victories he won the first major badminton championships in his native Spain. She also made history by becoming the youngest player from Europe to win the World Championship. This player also received a bronze medal for the Royal Order of Sports Merit of the year in Spain.
Other achievements
After unseating her Chinese opponent Li Xuerui, she became the No. 1-ranked player in the Super Series in March 2015. She defeated Li Xuerui once again in April to earn her second consecutive Super Series victory.
Marin won the Australian Open the following month by defeating Wang Shixian of China. After beating Tee Jing Yi, Pai Yu-Po and Wang Shixian to win the World Championship in Jakarta in June 2015, he became a cultural icon.
This badminton player also won the new title at the French Open in October, continuing her winning streak.
Rio Olympic Games and European Championships
He competed with Spain for the first time at the Rio Olympics. She competed in the Olympics to win gold. She defeated Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour in the French city, earning the title of European Champion before the Olympic Games.
He changed the course of the match, defeated world champion PV Sindhu in 83 minutes and made history.
Photo caption: Carolina Marín with her gold medal (Source: Instagram)
She defeated Asia’s supremacy in the Olympic Games by becoming the first non-Asian champion. Similarly, she defeated Scotland’s Kirsty Gilmour to win the 2017 European Championships for the third time in a row.
She defeated He Bengjiao of China that same year and won the Japanese Open Super Series Championship.
BWF World Championship
By defeating Evgeniya Kosetskaya at the European Championships in Huelva in 2018, she earned her fourth consecutive European Championship title.
Then, on August 5, Carolina defeated PV Sindhu in the BWF World Championship match that was being held in Nanking, China, with scores of 21-19, 21-10, in just 46 minutes. She becomes the first female athlete in history to win the World Championship title three times.
Injuries and comeback
She began her 2019 season by finishing second at the Malaysia Masters, where she was defeated by Ratchanok Intanon in a single set. On January 27, she, who had a 10-3 lead after the first match of the Indonesia Masters final against Saina Nehwal, tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
He later retired from the game and underwent multiple ACL surgeries by the time he returned to Madrid the next day. He underwent physical and technical rehabilitation for four months, spending ten hours a day.
After being out for eight months due to the injury, she returned to compete in September at the 2019 Vietnam Open, but lost to Supanida Katethong in the first round. However, she was able to recover and on September 22 she won the China Open by defeating Tai Tzu-Ying by scores of 14-21, 21-17 and 21-18 in the final.
In 2021
He defeated world No. 1 Tai Tzu-Ying in two easy games to win the Thailand Open Super 1000 tournament, his first win of the year. She defeated Danish junior Line Christophersen in the final to become the first athlete to win five consecutive championships at the European Championships.
She was supposed to defend her title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but was forced to withdraw after suffering a knee injury while training in June.
Carolina Marín – Net Worth 2023
As a badminton player, she has earned fame and money in her profession. Likewise, her net worth is estimated to be around $3.5 million.
Brand endorsement
Carolina Marín is now the brand ambassador to promote Spain’s top football division, La Liga, in the country. She already participated in a meet and greet to publicize La Liga.
Carolina Marín – Body Measurements
Carolina is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 65 kg. Furthermore, she had black hair with blackish brown eyes and there is no other information about the other body statistics of her.
Photo caption: Carolina Marín during a photo session (Source: Instagram)
Social media
On his Instagram, he has more than 436,000 followers. Likewise, there are more than 232 thousand followers on Facebook and more than 190.5 thousand followers on Twitter.
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