Melissa Tapper
Melissa Tapper 
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| Date of birth: | March 1, 1990 |
| Place of birth: | Hamilton (Victoria) |
| Playing hand: | Left |
| How to play: | Shakehand , attack |
| Current world rankings : | 173 |
| Best world ranking : | 141 (September 2019) |
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Melissa Tapper (born March 1, 1990 in Hamilton (Victoria) ) is an Australian table tennis player who plays because of a disability at the Paralympics, but also appears at the Olympic Games for non-disabled people. So she took the Paralympic Summer Games in 2012 and 2016 and to the 2016 Olympic Games in part.
Career
Melissa Tapper was born in Hamilton, Victoria and lives in South Melbourne, a suburb of Melbourne . At birth, she suffered damage to the brachial plexus ( child's plexus palsy ) with the following Erb's paralysis, which is why she is assigned to starting class 10 of the Paralympic Games .
In 2000, Melissa Tapper started playing table tennis. In 2010 she was considered the best player in Australia, in the same year she won the U18 championship of Oceania. After multiple successes in open tournaments, she was nominated for the 2012 Summer Paralympics . Here she lost to the Chinese Lei Fan in the semi-finals . At the 2014 Commonwealth Games , she won bronze in the team competition. 2016 was a premiere: for the first time, an Australian athlete was represented at both the Summer Paralympics and the Olympic Games . At the Paralympics, she went one round in singles, in doubles with Andrea McDonnell she was fourth. At the Olympic Games, she lost in the preliminary round to the Brazilian Caroline Kumahara .
In 2018 she won individual gold at the Commonwealth Games .
Honors
For her achievements, Melissa Tapper received the Victorian Institute of Sport 's Elite Athlete with a Disability Award in 2014. In 2018 she received the Personal Excellence Award from the same institute .
Web links
- Portrait (accessed January 5, 2020)
- Melissa Tapper in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed January 5, 2020)
- Rio 2016 Olympic Games # TABLE TENNIS - PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES WOMEN , page 34 (W_Bio_Rio2016.pdf) (accessed January 5, 2020)
- Results overview (accessed on January 5, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tapper Melissa: ranking history (ITTF) (accessed January 5, 2020)
- ↑ Portrait (accessed January 5, 2020)
- ↑ TAPPER WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD (accessed January 5, 2020)
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| SURNAME | Tapper, Melissa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamilton (Victoria) |