Carolina Marín

Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a Spanish badminton player. She is an Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, seven-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 (winning in 2014, 2015, and 2018), thereby becoming the only women’s singles player 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 was appointed as the brand ambassador of football major LaLiga and Meliá Hotels International for its promotion in other countries.