Emily Tapp

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. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in paratriathlon.

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. Tapp grew up on a remote cattle property in the Northern Territory. She was a boarder at Fairholme College in Toowoomba, Queensland and graduated at the end of 2010. But in 2021, the High Court of Australia ordered the Australian Bushmen's Campdraft & Rodeo Association to pay Tapp $6.75m in damages.

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

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 2017 – Rotterdam ITU World Championships Final – PTWC – 1st 2018 – Commonwealth Games – PWTC – 2nd 2018 - Gold Coast World Championships Final - 1st 2019 - Lausanne ITU World Championships Final - PTWC - 6th 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. Tapp finished second to Christie Dawes in 2016 Gold Coast Marathon Women's Wheelchair race.

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. 2018 -Triathlon Australia Female Para Triathlon Performance of the Year 2019 - Triathlon Australia Female Para Triathlon Performance of the Year