Megan Tapper

Megan Tapper

Personal information
Birth name	Megan Simmonds
Born	(1994-03-18) 18 March 1994 (age 30) Kingston, Jamaica[1]
Education	University of Technology, Jamaica
Height	1.56 m (5 ft 1 in)[2]
Weight	50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	100 metres hurdles
Medal record Representing  Jamaica Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 100 m hurdles Pan American Games 2019 Lima 100 m hurdles NACAC Championships 2022 Freeport 100 m hurdles 2022 Freeport 4×100 m relay NACAC U23 Championships 2014 Kamloops 100 m hurdles 2014 Kamloops 4×100 m relay

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 has qualified to represent Jamaica at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Her personal best in the 100 metres hurdles is 12.53 seconds set in Tokyo in 2021. She celebrated her third-place finish with the flag of her country wrapped around her, exuding the same joy she exhibits routinely.

International competitions[edit]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Jamaica
2010	CARIFTA Games (U17)	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	1st	100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	13.64 (w)
	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U17)	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	1st	100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	14.32
	Youth Olympic Games	Singapore	4th	100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	13.62
2011	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Montego Bay, Jamaica	2nd (h)	100 m hurdles	13.82 (w)1
	World Youth Championships	Lille, France	6th	100 m hurdles (76.2 cm)	13.78
2013	CARIFTA Games (U20)	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	1st	100 m hurdles	13.89
2014	NACAC U23 Championships	Kamloops, Canada	2nd	100 m hurdles	13.06 (w)
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	45.90
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	14th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.95
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	11th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.93
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	7th	100 m hurdles	13.18
2019	Pan American Games	Lima, Peru	3rd	100 m hurdles	13.01
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	5th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.611
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.55
2022	World Championships	Eugene, United States	9th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.52
	NACAC Championships	Freeport, Bahamas	2nd	100 m hurdles	12.68
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	43.49
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	7th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.55
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	11th (sf)	60 m hurdles	8.00

¹Did not finish in the final

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