In women’s individual recurve open on Thursday, Nemati defeated Italy’s Vincenza Petrilli 6-5 in the final to win the gold medal.
The bronze medal went to China's Chunyan Wu who overpowered Dorothea Poimenidou of Greece 6-2 in the third-place encounter.
This is the third gold medal of 36-year-old Nemati in the history of the Paralympics. She had brought home gold medals of recurve W1/W2 in the last two Paralympics editions in Rio and London.
This makes her one of the most decorated para-athletes of Iran.
“I am so happy,” she said after winning the title, also expressing thanks to her coaches. “This was a historic moment. I was the only athlete to carry the flag a delegation in both Paralympics and Olympics; and now, we made history once again and I am the only athlete in the history of archery to achieve a hat-trick in winning gold medals of Paralympics.”
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