Ella Sabljak
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 Ella Sabljak with the Australian Gliders at the 2017 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Beijing in October 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ella Louise Sabljak | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 October 1991 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair basketball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 1.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Women's team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Queensland Comets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ella Sabljak (born 17 October 1991) is an Australian 1.0 point wheelchair basketball player. She represented Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.[1]
Biography[edit]
Ella Louise Sabljak was born on 17 October 1991.[2] A 1.0 point Guard, she began playing wheelchair basketball for the Brisbane-based Queensland Comets in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League in 2011.[3] The Comets won the league championship in 2014, a year in which she was named the league Most Valuable Player 1-pointer. In 2015, she averaged three points and four rebounds per game.[2] She also played with the mixed National Wheelchair Basketball League competition.[4]
In 2011, she was part of the Australian junior team (the Devils) at the 2011 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, winning silver.[5] Four years later she was captain of the Devils at the 2015 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Beijing, again winning silver.[2]
She made her senior international debut with the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team (the Gliders) that year at the Osaka Cup in Japan in February 2013.[6] She subsequently played for the Gliders at the Osaka Cup in February 2015,[7] the 2015 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Chiba, Japan, in October 2015, the Osaka Cup in February 2016,[8][9] and the 2017 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Beijing in October 2017.[10]
She represented Australia at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship where the team came ninth.
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Gliders finished ninth after winning the 9th-10th classification match.[11]
She was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal in the 3x3 Women's tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Wheelchair rugby[edit]
Sabljak classified as a 2.5 player won her first world championship gold medal at the 2022 IWRF World Championship in Vejle, Denmark, when Australia defeated the United States.[12]
She studied education at Griffith University in Queensland, and is a qualified primary school teacher.[13] The university awarded her a full blue for wheelchair basketball in 2015.[14]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "Gliders' Redemption In Full Swing After Tokyo 2020 Announcement". Paralympics Australia. Archived from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ a b c "Ella Salbjak". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Player statistics for Ella Sabljak (1.0)". SportsTG. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Spinning Bullets ready to fire in 2016 NWBL". Sporting Wheelies. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Australia". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
- ^ Degun, Tom (11 February 2013). "Australian women's wheelchair basketball team set for Osaka Cup defence". Inside the Games. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Osaka Cup 2015 - Box Score" (PDF). Osaka Cup. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Australian Gliders named for 2016 Osaka Cup". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Gliders squad named ahead of 2016 Osaka Cup". SBS. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "2017 Asia-Oceania Championships – Australia – Women". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
- ^ "Gliders end Tokyo campaign on a high". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 31 August 2021. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Australian Steelers Are World Wheelchair Rugby Champions". Paralympics Australia. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- ^ "Ella Sabljak". Griffith University. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ Marshall, Deborah (29 October 2015). "Awards celebrate student athletes' success". Griffith News. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
