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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]
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.
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]