The Spanish badminton player Carolina Marín has been nominated for Player of the Year by the International Badminton Federation (BWF), the federative body has confirmed this Friday.
The Huelva, Olympic champion in Rio 2016, three-time world champion and five-time European champion, is one of the candidates to the award together with the Chinese Chen Yufei, Olympic champion in Tokyo 2020 -a date to which the Spanish could not attend due to injury-; Taiwanese Tai Tzu-Ying, silver in the last Games; and the Japanese Akane Yamaguchi. In male category, Danish Anders Antonsen – gold in Tokyo 2020 – and Viktor Axelsen, Chinese Wang Yi-Lyu and Japanese Yuta Watanabe are competing for the award.
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