Carolina María Marín Martín is a Spanish badminton player. She is an Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, eight-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. She has become the World Champion in the women's singles three times, thereby becoming the second women’s singles player after Han Aiping and the only non-Asian player to win the title three times. Marín is the only player in history to win seven gold medals in a single category of a continental championship, having consecutively won the European Championships title since 2014. She also won the Olympics gold medal in women's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics, thereby becoming the only non-Asian female player to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Marín in 2014
Marín won her first international title at 2009 Irish International in Dublin
Marín at 2013 Axiata Cup Surabaya
Marín at 2014 Spanish National Championships in Jaén
The BWF World Championships, formerly known as IBF World Championships, and also known as the World Badminton Championships, is a badminton tournament sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament is one of the most prestigious in badminton, offering the most ranking points, together with the Summer Olympics badminton tournaments which was introduced in 1992. The winners of this tournament are also crowned as "World Champions" of the sport, and are awarded a gold medal.
Official logo until 2006