Megan Tapper
| Personal information | |
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| Born | Megan Simmonds 18 March 1994 |
| Education | University of Technology, Jamaica |
| Height | 5 ft 1.4 in (156 cm)[2] |
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) |
| Sport | |
| 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 Yokohama, Japan as well as the team in Doha, Qatar at the world championships where she made the final in the 100m hurdles.
She was chosen to represent Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics[3] where she won a bronze medal.
Her personal best in the 100 metres hurdles is 12.34 seconds set in Kingston in 2025.
Statistics
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- 1994 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Kingston, Jamaica
- Jamaican women hurdlers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games athletes for Jamaica
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Jamaica
- Pan American Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Jamaica
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Jamaica
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics
- 21st-century Jamaican sportswomen
- Jamaican athletics biography stubs
- Jamaican Olympic medalist stubs