Emily Tapp
2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Emily Tapp
Personal information
NationalityAustralia Australian
Born (1991-06-10) 10 June 1991
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sport
SportParatriathlon
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Women's paratriathlon
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2017 RotterdamPTWC
Gold medal – first place2018 Gold CoastPTWC
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2018 Gold CoastPTWC

Emily Tapp (born 10 June 1991) is an Australian wheelchair Paralympic athlete and triathlete. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics but was forced to withdraw before the Games due to a burns injury.[1][2] She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in paratriathlon.[3]

Personal

On 8 January 2011 Tapp had a campdrafting fall that left her a paraplegic. The accident resulted in her spending eight months in hospital and three years of rehabilitation.[4][5] Tapp grew up on a remote cattle property in the Northern Territory.[4] She was a boarder at Fairholme College in Toowoomba, Queensland and graduated at the end of 2010.[4][5] In 2020, the NSW Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from Tapp, who had sustained catastrophic injuries while competing in a campdraft competition organised by a not-for-profit community sports association, the Australian Bushmen's Campdraft & Rodeo Association.[6] But in 2021, the High Court of Australia ordered the Australian Bushmen's Campdraft & Rodeo Association to pay Tapp $6.75m in damages.[7]

In 2015, she was undertaking a Bachelor of International Business and Finance at University of Southern Queensland.[5]

Paratriathlon

In 2015, she won her first paratriathlon by winning the PT1 class at the OTU Oceania Paratriathlon Championships at Penrith, New South Wales.[5]

Tapp was disappointed that the Women's PT1 event was not on the 2016 Rio Paralympics paratriathlon program.[5]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Tapp crashed into a barrier during the opening stages of the bike leg of the PTWC, rendering her bike unridable and forcing her to withdraw from the event.[8]

International results

  • 2015 – Penrith OTU Paratriathlon Oceania Championships – PT1 – 1st
  • 2015 – Sunshine Coast ITU World Paratriathlon Event – PT1 – 1st
  • 2015 – Yokohama ITU World Paratriathlon Event – PT1 – 1st
  • 2015 – Detroit ITU World Paratriathlon Event - PT1 - 2nd
  • 2015 – ITU World Triathlon Grand Final Chicago – PT1 – 2nd
  • 2016 – Devonport OTU Paratriathlon Oceania Championships – PT1 – 1st
  • 2016 – Penrith ITU World Paratriathlon Event – PT1 – 1st[9]
  • 2017 – Rotterdam ITU World Championships Final – PTWC – 1st[10]
  • 2018 – Commonwealth Games – PWTC – 2nd
  • 2018 - Gold Coast World Championships Final - 1st[11]
  • 2019 - Lausanne ITU World Championships Final - PTWC - 6th[12]
  • 2021 - Tokyo Summer Paralympics - PTWC - Did not finish

Athletics

Tapp is classified as a T54 athlete. Representing the Australian Capital Territory, she came fourth in the Women's 1500m at the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships.[13] Tapp finished second to Christie Dawes in 2016 Gold Coast Marathon Women's Wheelchair race.[14]

She was selected for the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics but she suffered a burn on her leg three weeks before she left for a training camp in Florida. The skin graft did not heal in time.[2]

Recognition

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 Walsh, Gerard (6 September 2016). "Burn has Tapp out of Rio Paralympics". The Chronicle. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "World-Class Para-Triathletes Confirmed For Tokyo 2020". Paralympics Australia. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 Pramberg, Bernie (10 February 2015). "Paratriathlete Emily Tapps into her hidden potential". Courier Mail. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Crothers, Andrea (13 January 2015). "Tapp powers to the top". Queensland Countrylife. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "NSW Court of Appeal finds community sports association not liable for obvious risk of a dangerous recreational activity". Hall & Willcox. 26 October 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "Former campdrafter Emily Tapp wins $6.75m payout after serious spinal injury". ABC News. 6 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  8. ↑ Cootes, Isobel (29 August 2021). "Emily Tapp suffers heartbreaking bike crash in Tokyo paratriathlon". Canberra Times. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  9. ↑ "Emily Tapp". International Triathlon Union. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "Golden day for Aussie paratriathletes in Rotterdam". Triathlon Australia website. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  11. ↑ "Tapp turned on full bore as Emily strokes World Championship gold". Triathlon Australia website. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Parker crowned World Champion in Lausanne". Triathlon Australia. 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  13. ↑ "2016 Australian Athletics Championships". Athletics Australia website. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  14. ↑ "Race records tumble as Fearnley and Dawes secure Wheelchair Marathon titles". Gold Coast Marathon website. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  15. ↑ Dutton, Chris (30 November 2018). "Canberra Brave caps remarkable year with ACT team of year award". Canberra Times. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  16. 1 2 "Paratriathlon Event Awards". Tritahlon Australia. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
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