Career
Since 2009, she currently holds four Austrian records in the freestyle and medley relays. She also claimed a bronze medal in the 200 m butterfly (2:0929) at the 2000 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Valencia, Spain. Zahrl made her first Austrian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women"s 200 m butterfly.
Swimming in heat two, she picked up a third spot and twenty-third overall by seven tenths of a second (070) behind Macedonia"s Mirjana Bosevska in 2:13.29.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Zahrl qualified again for the 200 m butterfly by eclipsing a FINA A-cut of 2:10.50 from the European Championships in Madrid. She challenged seven other swimmers on the same heat as Sydney, including top medal favorite Éva Risztov of Hungary.
She edged out 15-year-old Kwon You-Ri of South of Korea to take a seventh spot by 0.38 of a second in 2:13.92. Zahrl failed to advance into the semifinals, as she managed to repeat a twenty-third place finish from Sydney in the preliminaries.