Luke Pople Explained

Luke Pople
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Nationality:Australian
Birth Date:6 June 1991
Position:Point guard
Disability Class:2.5

Luke Pople (born 6 June 1991) is a wheelchair basketball player from Australia.[1] He has been selected in the Rollers team at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, his first Games.[2]

Biography

Pople was born on 6 June 1991 with spina bifida.[3] He began using a wheelchair at eight.[3], he lives in Dapto, New South Wales.[4]

Pople started playing wheelchair basketball at age thirteen.[3] He plays for the Wollongong Roller Hawks in the National Wheelchair Basketball League. In 2013, we was a member of the Australian Spinners that won to bronze at the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation Under 23 World Championships.[1] He was a member of the Rollers that won the gold medal at the 2014 Men's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Incheon, Japan. In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.[5] At the

Pople was a member of the Australian Team that won the gold medal in the 3x3 men's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Luke Pople . Basketball Australia website . 27 August 2018.
  2. Web site: 2024-07-05 . Fire Burns For Veteran Rollers Picked For Paris 2024 Paralympics Australia . 2024-07-07 . www.paralympic.org.au . en-AU.
  3. Web site: Luke Pople : their journey . Sunrise Medical website . 27 August 2018.
  4. Web site: Luke Pople . Wollongong Roller Hawks website . 28 August 2018.
  5. Web site: Rollers earn bronze at the 2018 World Championships . Basketball Australia website . 28 August 2018.