Career
Minetti was a beauty pageant contestant in the 1997 edition of Mission Italia. She gained public attention because she was the first blind woman admitted to the competition. As a para-sport athlete Minetti competes in the T11 disability classification category.
She competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 1500 metres but due to there being no T11 race in the schedule, she entered the T12 event.
She ended the race in third position but set a new world record for her class, beating the previous record set by Miroslava Sedlackova. In the Italian legislative elections of 2013 Minetti has aligned with the political movement of Mario Monti.