 Pople at the 2024 Summer Paralympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 6 June 1991 |
| Sport | |
| Position | Point guard |
| Disability class | 2.5 |
Luke Pople (born 6 June 1991) is a wheelchair basketball player from Australia. [1] He was a member of the Rollers team at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, his first Games. [2]
Pople was born on 6 June 1991 with spina bifida. [3] He began using a wheelchair at eight. [3] As of 2018 [update] , 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.
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, he was a member of the Rollers that finished fifth with a win/loss record of 3-3. [6]
