Jane Sachs Explained

Jane Sachs
Nationality:Australian
Birth Date:19 June 1972
Birth Place:Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Jane Sachs (née Webb, born 19 June 1972) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player, who has won two medals at three Paralympics from 1996 to 2004.

Personal

Sachs was born in Hobart on 19 June 1972.[1] She competed in running and played netball before an accident at the age of nine, when she fell from a tree and landed on an exposed tree root, breaking her back.[2] [3] She works as a consultant for Westpac and lives in Sydney.[4] She was married to wheelchair basketballer Troy Sachs and the couple had a daughter.[5] [6]

Career

Sachs, a 3 point player, first represented Australia in the national wheelchair basketball squad at the 1989 FESPIC Games.[7] She competed in the 1990 and 1994 Gold Cups, receiving a bronze medal in the latter event, and the 1994 FESPIC Games.[1] [8] Her first Paralympics was the 1996 Atlanta Games, where her team came fourth, and she won a bronze medal with her team at the 1998 Gold Cup.[8] [9] She won silver medals with her team at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Paralympics.[9] [10] She has played for the West Sydney Razorbacks and, most recently, the Stacks Goudkamp Bears (previously the North Sydney Bears).[7] [11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Australians at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics: wheelchair basketball . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000119130000/http:/www.ausport.gov.au/olym96/parabask.html . 19 January 2000 . ausport.gov.au . . 22 November 2012.
  2. News: Two of us . . 29 July 2000 . Amanda . Hooton . 14.
  3. News: Basketball in sitting style . . 26 August 1998 . Paul . Suttor . 54 . 23 November 2012.
  4. Web site: Jane Sachs . . 22 November 2012 . https://archive.today/20121205213245/http://au.linkedin.com/pub/jane-sachs/4/900/a60 . 5 December 2012.
  5. News: Our Troy sacks Canada and pockets a gold . . 18 September 2008 . Omar . Hamwi . 22 November 2012.
  6. Web site: Jane Sachs: About . Facebook . 12 October 2017.
  7. Web site: Athlete Profile . paralympic.org.au . . 22 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071110061202/http://www.paralympic.org.au/apc_athlete.asp?id=123 . 10 November 2007.
  8. Web site: Jane Webb . paralympic.org.au . . 22 November 2012 . https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000206130000/http:/www.paralympic.org.au/profiles/jane_webb.html . 6 February 2000.
  9. Web site: Jane Webb . Paralympic.org . . 22 November 2012.
  10. Web site: Jane Sachs . Paralympic.org . . 22 November 2012.
  11. Web site: New-look WNWBL ignites this weekend . . 3 June 2011 . 22 November 2012.