Kerri Michelle Tepper (born 4 March 1967), is an Australian former

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player who competed at two Olympic Games. She competed in the

1988 Seoul Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

in both the women's singles and doubles events, teaming up with Nadia Bisiach in the latter. She finished equal 25th of 48 in the singles event, while she and Bisiach came 15th (last) in the doubles. At the

1992 Barcelona Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

Tepper came equal 33 of 62 in the women's singles event and in the doubles she and Ying Kwok finished equal 17th of 31. From 1993 to 1996 Tepper was Chief Executive Officer of Table Tennis Victoria and was a board member of the Victorian Olympic Committee from 1999 to 2013. She was a board member of the

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from 2001 to 2007. In 2008 she was inducted into the Australian Table Tennis Hall of Fame and in 2018 she was awarded life membership of

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1967 births Living people Australian female table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Australia Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportswomen from Victoria (state) {{Australia-tabletennis-bio-stub