Ella Sabljak
Ella Sabljak with the Australian Gliders at the 2017 IWBF Asia-Oceania Championships in Beijing in October 2017
Personal information
Full nameElla Louise Sabljak
Nationality Australia
Born (1991-10-17) 17 October 1991
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportWheelchair basketball
PositionGuard
Disability class1.0
EventWomen's team
ClubQueensland Comets
Medal record
Women's basketball
U25 Women's World Championships
Silver medal – second place2011 St Catharines, CanadaWomen's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place2015 Beijing, ChinaWomen's wheelchair basketball
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place2022 Birmingham 3x3 Competition
Wheelchair rugby
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 VejleMixed

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

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

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

  1. ↑ "Gliders' Redemption In Full Swing After Tokyo 2020 Announcement". Paralympics Australia. Archived from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ella Salbjak". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Player statistics for Ella Sabljak (1.0)". SportsTG. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Spinning Bullets ready to fire in 2016 NWBL". Sporting Wheelies. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Australia". Wheelchair Basketball Canada. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Degun, Tom (11 February 2013). "Australian women's wheelchair basketball team set for Osaka Cup defence". Inside the Games. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Osaka Cup 2015 - Box Score" (PDF). Osaka Cup. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Australian Gliders named for 2016 Osaka Cup". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Gliders squad named ahead of 2016 Osaka Cup". SBS. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "2017 Asia-Oceania Championships – Australia – Women". International Wheelchair Basketball Federation. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ "Australian Steelers Are World Wheelchair Rugby Champions". Paralympics Australia. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  13. ↑ "Ella Sabljak". Griffith University. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  14. ↑ Marshall, Deborah (29 October 2015). "Awards celebrate student athletes' success". Griffith News. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
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