Luke Pople (born 6 June 1991) is a

wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as ...

player from Australia. He was a member of the Rollers team at the

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, his first Games.

Early life

Pople was born on 6 June 1991 with

spina bifida Spina bifida (SB; ; Latin for 'split spine') is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the vertebral column, spine and the meninges, membranes around the spinal cord during embryonic development, early development in pregnancy. T ...

. He began using a wheelchair at eight. , he lives in

Dapto, New South Wales Dapto is a suburb of City of Wollongong, Wollongong in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the western side of Lake Illawarra and covering . As at the , the suburb had a population of 10,954. History The name Dapto i ...

Career

Pople started playing wheelchair basketball at age thirteen. 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. He was a member of the Rollers that won the gold medal at the 2014 Men's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in

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, Japan. In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at

2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship The 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the Edel-optics.de Arena in Hamburg, Germany, from 16 to 26 August 2018. Both men's and women's tournaments were held, with 12 women's and 16 men's teams competing, representing 19 di ...

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, Germany. 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 The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England betw ...

. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, he was a member of the Rollers that finished fifth with a win/loss record of 3-3.

References

External links

Basketball Australia Profile
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