Nesar Ahmad Bahawi , born March 27, 1984, in Kapisa Province) is an Afghan Taekwondo practitioner.

He won the silver medal in the lightweight category (72 kg) at the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships, edging out 2004 Olympic Champion Hadi Saei in the semifinals.

Nesar won the gold medal in the 2009 Asian Martial Arts Games for taekwondo in the 72 kg weight range category.

Nesar acted as flagbearer for Afghanistan again at the 2012 London Olympics, where he competed in the -80 kg category.

On August 10, while suffering from a leg injury, he advanced from the preliminaries to the quarterfinals where he was defeated by Sebastián Crismanich of Argentina.