Carolina Marín (Huelva, 1993) began playing badminton at the age of eight. After winning several junior titles, at the age of 14 she entered the High Performance Center of the Consejo Superior de Deportes in Madrid where she has developed into the best badminton player in the history of this sport in Spain and one of the best in the world.

Olympic champion -first and only non-Asian-, three-time world champion, seven-time European champion (the last in 2024) and the first European to win two consecutive world titles (2014 and 2015), Carolina Marín became, after winning the 2018 World Championship, the first player in the world to win three titles in this competition.

Carolina has contributed to the promotion and popularization of badminton in Spain and has received, among other honors, the Bronze Medal (2014) and Gold Medal (2016) of the Royal Order of Sports Merit, the Queen Letizia National Sports Award for the best Spanish sportswoman of the year (2014), the Medal of Huelva (2015), the Best Spanish Sportswoman Award from the Spanish Olympic Committee (2015), the distinction of Best Player of the Year from the European Badminton Federation (2015) and Best World Player from the International Badminton Federation (2015) or the Medal of Andalucía (2018). In 2024 she received the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports.