Carolina Marín

Carolina María Marín Martín is a former professional badminton player from Spain. she is an Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, eight-time European Champion, and former World No. 1 in women's singles. Marin won the Olympic gold medal in women's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics, thereby becoming the only non-Asian female player to win a badminton gold medal at the Olympics. She won the World Championships in 2014, 2015, and 2018, and held the World No. 1 ranking for a record total of 66 weeks. Marín is the only player in history to win a gold medal in the singles’ discipline of all continental championships, having won every single European Championships title from 2014 to 2024, in addition to a European Games title in 2023.