The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant #33 - Jamaican Olympic Medalist Hurdler Megan Tapper

The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant

Adrian Durant

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of The Homestretch w/Adrian Durant, where we meet and have conversations with some of the most inspiring and elite athletes, coaches and sports personalities. Today we have with us on the show, Megan Tapper, a very talented athlete and an Olympics Bronze Medalist. Megan started her career in sports at a very early age. She took up gymnastics at age seven before turning her focus to athletics at age 12. She has competed in various national and international athletic events including, World Championships, Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games and Olympic Games where she also won a bronze medal.

In this interview, Megan will talk about her early life, how she got into Track & Field and specifically Hurdles. She will share the struggles and obstacles she faced in her path of becoming a world class athlete. She also shares her 2020 Tokyo Olympics experience and how was she feeling after winning her first Olympic medal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the home stretch with Adrian Durant, a podcast where we talk to amazing people,
0:16.7	world champions and Olympic medalists and we talk about their experiences, the obstacles
0:21.6	they've overcome and how they achieved success and greatness so we can steal some tidbits
0:27.0	from their stories. Today we have another special guest, Olympic bronze medalist, Megan
0:32.6	Tapper. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. Of course and Ashley is joining
0:41.8	me today as my co-host once again. Thank you Ashley for joining me. Help me out.
0:46.1	Of course. Alright, before we get started I have to go through your bio. It is pretty extensive
0:53.1	but Megan Tapper, AKA Megan Lion, AKA the Little Lion. I'm all these pretty cool, pretty
1:02.9	cool nicknames. So the Little Lion, Topia Olympic bronze medalist and the 100 hurdles
1:08.0	with a personal best of 1253 and correct me if I'm wrong but the first Jamaican women
1:14.4	to win in the sprint hurdles at the Olympic Games. And in the Caribbean or so. That's a huge
1:21.4	deal. You got to say that one more time. You are the first woman in the Caribbean to win
1:31.4	a medal at the Olympic Games in the 100 hurdles. We got to be blasting your name. We have to
1:38.4	be blasting your name a little bit more I think. Because enough people don't know this.
1:44.1	And you've been in the game for a while and wasn't just you know you come out and win a
1:47.3	medal. You are you know 2010, Crifter Games champion. And for the folks who listen to this
1:52.0	podcast, we've had a bunch of Krifter folks on here, Eileen Bailey and a few other folks
1:57.2	from the Caribbean. Oh yeah, definitely. And so if you have a Krifter Games champion,
2:02.7	we already know that you're on the path to being one of the best. 2010 Central American
2:07.8	and Caribbean Games Junior Champion. You are 2011, Krifter Silver medalist, 2013 Krifter
2:14.5	champion. So picked up a bunch of medals. 2016 Olympic semi-finalists, semi-finalists
2:21.2	in the 2017 World Champs, seven to the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Bronze medalists in the
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