Spanish badminton player Carolina Marína native of Huelva, has assured that “competing again” has been his “gold medal” in the European Championship, in which he has won his sixth consecutive continental title after beating the Scottish Kirsty Gilmour (21- 10, 21-12), and has warned that he is “back” and wanting to lift more trophies.
a championship of Europaher sixth, a year after becoming champion for the fifth time in kyiv in 2021, which she achieves again with her medal from the Virgin of the Dew around her neck, from which she has never been separated since she was a child, without a doubt an amulet that has served as a boost at a time when many doubted that the Huelva-born woman would return with such force.
“I feel happy. Beyond the gold medal itself, competing again has been my gold medal. This is the first of many tournaments that I have left. I have shown that I am back, that we are strong, that what the knee and the injury has now completely passed. I am very happy to be back in Madrid, in Spain, with all my family and my friends. The public and I have enjoyed it together”, he said after the final.
Sixth time he wins the European Badminton Championship
In addition, he recognized the emotional boost that this victory has meant after eleven months of ordeal due to his serious knee injury. “I am very full of energy and confidence. It is the first of many tournaments ahead, and now I just want to enjoy this victory. The victory for me is to have competed again, for my team and my family,” she said.
Finally, the woman from Huelva had words of thanks for the public present these days in Gallur. “Millions and millions of thanks to each of the people who have come to see me from last Sunday’s training until Tuesday, which was my first game. It has been incredible to have my return here in Madrid. Today the public has turned from the first second in which I have left. We have enjoyed a lot together. This medal belongs to all of us”, he concluded.
He has had no rival throughout the championship
The final of the European Championship in Madrid 2022 has been disputed against the Scottish Kirsty Gilmour (21-10, 21-12), a title that ends an eleven-month nightmare for the Huelva.
The untimely knee injury that deprived her of defending her Olympic title in Tokyo is now history, and the Andalusian has amply demonstrated it by masterfully completing a continental tournament at the Gallur Municipal Sports Center in which she has shown that she has returned to aspire to everything again.
The three-time world champion soon distanced herself with a 5-0 run in the opening set against the British (9-4), which she ended up leaving behind after the halfway point of the sleeve (15-6), among the cheers of the public present in the Madrid venue.
A rush put the second set on track for the Spanish (7-2), who was able to extinguish any reaction from the Scotswoman and close the contest quickly before falling to the ground in tears to celebrate her sixth continental win (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022).
Now, the woman from Huelva, who leaves the European Championship having lost a single set in the entire championship, is now facing the next World Championship, which will be held from August 21 to 28 in Tokyo, all without taking her eyes off Paris 2024, where aspires to regain his crown.
