Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a Spanish professional badminton player.
She is the reigning Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, four-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 a record number of 66 weeks.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest female athletes in the badminton circuit, she holds the distinction of having won a medal in almost every BWF tournament, along with the consecutive golds at the Olympics, the World Championships and the European Championships.
She has become the World Champion in women's singles three times, winning in 2014, 2015 and 2018.
She has also consecutively won the BWF European Championships title for 4 times in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
She won her first Olympics gold medal in women's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
In 2018, she won the BWF World Championships for the third time, thereby becoming the first ever female badminton athlete to have achieved this feat.In June 2017, she was appointed as the Brand ambassador of Meliá Hotels International.
She was also appointed the brand ambassador of football major LaLiga for its promotion in other countries.