Melissa Tapper
- January 13, 2024
- Table Tennis Player
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Melissa Tapper Biography
| Birthday | Mar 1 |
| Birth Year | 1990 |
Melissa Tapper is one of the most popular and richest Table Tennis Player who was born on March 1, 1990 in Hampton, Victoria, Australia. Tapper began playing Para-Table Tennis in 2010. This was around the time Tapper made the transition from an able-bodied competitor to a disability sport. Kelvin Neal, a competitor in table tennis, beat Tapper 3 sets to 0. She was ranked 19th around the world in early 2011.
Tapper is a class 10 table tennis player which means she competes while standing as opposed to competing while in a wheelchair. As of 2012, she has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport.
In October 2014, she won the Victorian Institute of Sport’s Elite Athlete with a Disability Award. In November 2018, Tapper won Victorian Institute of Sport Personal Excellence Award.
Tapper competed in an event in Portugal and a Czech Republic event. Tapper was also a member of the World Junior Cadets Under-15s. Tapper’s college paid part of the travel costs for her competition. With the goal of representing Australia at the Olympic Games, she began to take the sport seriously. She was first at the 2008 Under 18 Oceania Championship, and the 2008 Under 21 Australian Championships. She was the Australian U21 champion and Oceania U18 champion by 2008 and she won the Michael Szabados Award as the Australian Junior Player. In October 2008, she competed at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune (India).
Tapper began playing tennis in 2002, while she was still in primary school. She competed against ablebodied athletes and her first appearance on an Australian team was in a Jordanian competition in 2004. She competed in the National Table Tennis Championships 2004 in the under-14s doubles, mixed doubles as well as the under-16s doubles & mixed doubles. Tapper also earned medals in seven events with three first-place finishes.
In March, she spent time in Europe playing table tennis in Italy and Hungary, winning the Opens in both countries. She won two gold medals at the 2011 Arafura Games, and was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in table tennis. She modelled the 2012 Australian Paralympic team uniform at Sydney’s Overseas Passenger Terminal during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia Spring/Summer 2012/13.
As of December 11, 2023, Melissa has a net worth approximately $5 Million.
Melissa Tapper Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Table Tennis Player |
| House | Living in own house. |
Melissa is one of the richest Table Tennis Player from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melissa Tapper 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
Melissa Tapper, a table tennis player from Australia, was born 1 March 1990. She represented Australia in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in elite, non- Paralympic competition after she had competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She became the first Australian athlete qualified for the Summer Olympics as well as the Summer Paralympics in March 2016.
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Melissa Ranked on the list of most popular Table Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Melissa Tapper celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.
What is Melissa Tapper disability?
Growing up in the small Australian town of Hamilton, Tapper – who has Erbs palsy due to the nerves between her shoulder and neck being torn during childbirth – never competed in Para competitions. In fact, she was 19-years- old before she competed in her first.
What happened to Melissa Tapper?
At the 2019 Oceania Para Table Tennis Championships, Darwin, she won the gold medal in the Women’s Class 6–10. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics in the Women’s Team C9-10 with Lei Li Na and Yang Qian. She lost in the Women’s C10 in the quarter finals to fellow Australian Yang Qian.
Where did Melissa Tapper grow up?
Melissa grew up in a small town called Hamilton in the southwest of Victoria , 300km away from Melbourne. She played multiple sports such as netball, basketball and athletics, it was at 8 years old that she first played table tennis.
In what sport did Melissa Tapper make history in 2016?
Following the Games, she became the first Australian Paralympic table tennis player to qualify for an able-bodied national team when she was selected to represent Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, and in 2016, Melissa made history again when she became the first Australian to compete at a …
When did Melissa Tapper start playing table tennis?
She is the first athlete to represent Australia at both the Summer Olympic Games and the Summer Paralympics. She has a brachial plexus injury resulting in Erb’s palsy and is a class 10 table tennis player. Born in Hamilton, Victoria, in 1990, Melissa started playing table tennis in 2002 while still at primary school.