Carolina Marín has been awarded the Princess of Asturias Sports Award 2024according to the jury, “for her extraordinary record in badminton, a sport in which she has become an international reference.”
“The best player in the history of badminton in Spain“, as the members indicate, is “an example of improvement, source of inspiration and transmitter of valueson and off the track”.
Carolina Marín, 10 years of success and promoter of badminton in Spain
Historic milestone for the first non-Asian player in the TOP 10 of badminton
Marín entered the world top ten on April 10, 2014, becoming the first non-Asian player to do so, and two weeks later she won the European Championship in Kazan (Russia), a European crown that renewed in 2016 (La Roche-sur-Yon/France), 2017 (Kolding/Denmark), 2018 (Huelva/Spain), 2021/(kyiv), 2022 (Madrid) and 2024 (Saarbrücken).
In August of that year he made history again by proclaiming himself world champion in Copenhagen, final in which she defeated the Chinese Li Xuerui, world number one. It was the first of his three world titles: in 2015 she won in Jakarta (Indonesia), defeating India’s Saina Nehwal in the final; and in 2018 she in Shanghai (China) by beating the Indian Pusarla Sindhu.
On June 11, 2015 it became the number one in the worldagain the first non-Asian to achieve it and on August 18, 2016 she completed her impressive record with the Olympic gold at the Rio Games after defeating in the final, with a comeback, again against Sindhu.
“I can because I think I can”: the motto of Carolina Marín’s improvement
In addition to his titles, Marín is a example of improvement as he has demonstrated in the face of two serious knee injuries that have forced him to undergo surgery and miss the Tokyo Olympics for the second time.
The first intervention was in January 2019, after breaking the cruciate ligament in her right knee while playing in the final of the Indonesian Masters, so she had to remain inactive for about eight months.
Two years later, on May 28, 2021, when preparing the postponed Tokyo Olympics, She once again tore the anterior cruciate ligament and the two menisci in her left knee during training, which forced her to undergo surgery again and stay away from the courts for months.
Carolina Marín, Princess of Asturias Sports Award 2024
Marín will receive the award in October
The Huelva native takes over from Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge, two-time Olympic marathon champion, who last year was distinguished by the jury as a “reference in world athletics” and as the “best runner” in the discipline “of all time.”
The Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony will be celebratedAs is traditional, in the month of October in a solemn ceremony presided over by Their Majesties the Kings of Spain, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Asturias and the Infanta Doña Sofía.
The award is endowed with a sculpture by Joan Miró, an accrediting diploma, a badge and the cash amount of fifty thousand euros.
The jury that awarded this award to Carolina Marín is made up of several sports journalists and athletes such as: Teresa Perales Fernández (president) Patricia García Rodríguez (secretary) Teresa Bernadas Porto, Tomás de Cos Relaño, Joaquín Folch-Rusiñol Corachán, Juan Ignacio Gallardo Tomé, Feliciano López Díaz-Guerra, Santiago Nolla Zayas, Guadalupe Porras Ayuso, Julián Redondo Pérez, Paloma del Río Cañadas, Samuel Sánchez González, Sitapha Savané Sagna and Alberto Suárez Laso.
2024-05-09 04:48:00
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