Megan Tapper
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| Born | Megan Simmonds 18 March 1994 | |||||||||||
| Education | University of Technology, Jamaica | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)[2] | |||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event | 100 metres hurdles | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Megan Tapper (née Simmonds; born 18 March 1994) is a Jamaican athlete competing in the sprint hurdles. She represented her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics reaching the semifinals. She also represented her country in the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London where she made it to the semi-finals. In 2018, she competed at the Commonwealth games finishing 7th in the final. In 2019, she was a member of the Jamaican shuttle hurdles relay in Yokahama, Japan as well as the team in Doha, Qatar at the world championships where she made the final in the 100m hurdles.
Her personal best in the 100 metres hurdles is 12.61 seconds set in Doha in 2019.[3]
International competitions
1Did not finish in the final
References
- ^ "2018 CWG bio". Retrieved 30 April 2018.
- ^ Rio 2016 bio
- ^ Megan Tapper at World Athletics
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- 1994 births
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- Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica
- Jamaican female hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
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