Tapper inks deal with Adidas

Olympic 100-metre hurdles bronze medallist and four-time national sprint hurdles champion Megan Tapper signed a four-year contract with German sportswear brand Adidas.

"Thirty-one and still hurdling limits...here's to four golden years with the giant Adidas," Tapper, who stands at 5ft 1in, wrote under an Adidas-marked Instagram post.

Tapper adds this deal to her personal-best run at the Jamaican Championships in Kingston in June with a time of 12.34 seconds.

She would later go on to match this time at the Meeting International d'Athletisme Herculis EBS Diamond League in Monaco in July.

"Believe nuh mon..." she said. "It's possible yes, but everything is impossible in the beginning."

The 2019 Pan American 100m hurdles bronze medallist is set to line up at the World Championships in Tokyo come September, where she will seek to earn her first World Championships medal. Tokyo is the same city where she earned her Olympic bronze medal in 2021.

Adidas has a history of sponsoring Jamaican athletes, including Yohan Blake, Warren Weir and Veronica Campbell-Brown.

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