Zahra Nemati

Zahra Nemati is an Iranian archer who has competed at both the Paralympic and the Olympic Games. She was born on 30 April 1985 in Kerman, Iran, and had been a black belt in taekwondo before a car accident in 2003 left her with spinal injuries and paralysis of both legs. She took up archery in 2006 and within six months finished third at the national championships against able-bodied archers. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London she won individual gold in women recurve and team bronze, becoming the first Iranian woman to win a gold medal at either the Olympic or Paralympic Games. She qualified for both the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and was Iran flagbearer at the 2016 Olympics and at the postponed 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo.