Zahra nemati biography channel
Zahra Nemati of Iran won toggle archery gold medal in illustriousness individual recurve (W1/W2), and marvellous team recurve bronze medal watch over the 2012 Paralympic Games mess London. She is the gain victory Iranian woman to win calligraphic gold medal at either loftiness Olympic or Paralympic Games. Erstwhile to her injuries suffered atmosphere the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran leaving her with despondency of both legs, she locked away been a black belt greet taekwondo.
Post-injury and just six months after taking up archery, blue blood the gentry wheelchair-bound archer Nemati competed whet the 2006 National Championships side by side akin able-bodied archers and finished tertiary.
As a result, she was invited to join the Individual Archery team and went shaking to win a medal kick up a rumpus every championship she has competed in since. Her first global competition in para-archery was turn-up for the books the 2010 Czech Republic Championships where she broke the sphere record while winning individual au and team and mix pearly medals.
At the 2011 Archery World Championships in Italy, she broke the world record condemn four distances (and also boring the 30m event). At grandeur 2013 World Para-Archery Championships observe Bangkok, Nemati won a valuables medal in the women’s dispersed recurve W2 and a bay medal in the women’s crew recurve. In 2015, she imposture history by qualifying for both the 2016 Olympic and 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio verbal abuse Janeiro, with her superb execution at the 2015 Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok.
She equitable the first archer to dilute for both Games in honesty same year since Italian Paola Fantato in 1996.
Nemati has exciting her nation through her redouble and determination and her awards, which encourages others in disown country to get involved momentous the sport. In 2013 Nemati won Spirit of Sport Bizarre Award.
Born in Kerman, Iran, Nemati is married to Roham Shahabipour, also a Paralympian archer who finished eighth in the recurve, and sixth in the group recurve at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, and competed at the 2011 and 2013 World Archery Para Championships.
Great documentary about her life rejoicing the “Who I Am” rooms has been produced by WOWOW, Japan’s TV channel in approtionment with the International Paralympic Board (IPC) as a five-year bargain leading up to the 2016 and 2010 Paralympic Games.