Born on May 1, 1985 in Golbaf, she is a member of the National Archery team of women with disabilities in Iran. She is the first woman in the history of Iranian sports to win a gold medal at the World, Olympic and Paralympic Games. She was also honored to receive the prestigious award for the best athlete of the 2012 London Paralympic Games from the International Sport Accord on May 29, 2013 at the IOC Ceremony in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Honors

London 2012 Paralympic Games

Zahra Nemati won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in the individual recurve category and immortalized her name as the first and only woman in the history of Iranian sports to win a gold medal at the Olympic and Paralympic levels.

She also won the third title and the bronze medal at the London 2012 Paralympics, along with Razieh Shirmohammadi and Zahra Javanmard, who formed the Iranian Women’s National Archery team in the team section.

London 2012 Paralympic Athlete Award

Zahra Nemati was honored to receive the prestigious award for the best athlete of the London 2012 Paralympics on May 29, 2013 by the Sport Accord.

Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games

She is the first Iranian athlete, the first Asian woman and the thirteenth athlete in history to win a quota in both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games (in Rio 2016); she was also selected as the flag bearer of Iran in Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games by the decision of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By this account, she is the first disabled Muslim woman to become the flag bearer of a country's Olympic delegation.