TEHRAN – Iran’s three-time Paralympics champion Zahra Nemati will be absent in the 2024 Paralympic Games.

Technical Deputy of Iran’s National Paralympic Committee (NPC), Saeid Solgi, said that Nemati will not compete in the Games.

“Nemati has not participated in any training camp after the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, and she will also be absent in the Para-Archery European Cup 2nd Leg WRE 2024 to be held in Czech Republic in late June. We preferred not to register her name at the 2024 Paralympic Games,” Solgi said.

“Nemati is a legendary athlete and we are not going to send him to Paris under these conditions due to her lack of physical and technical preparation,” he added.

Nemati is arguably the most popular and successful female Paralympian to come from Iran. She has won golds at three different editions of the Paralympic Games.

Jalil Koohpayehzadeh, head of Iran's Sports Federation for the Disabled, had previously said Nemati would not compete in the Paralympics.

“As you know, Zahra Nemati is the most decorated Iran woman Paralympian but he has not yet registered in the Games. Her participation in the upcoming Paralympic Games is not certain yet,” Koohpayehzadeh had said in the news conference in mid-May.