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| Full name | Troy Sachs | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 December 1975 Bulli, New South Wales |
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Troy Sachs (OAM) (born 3 December 1975) is a wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He competed in the Paralympic Games in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008, where he won three medals. Sachs won two national league championships in Australia, three national league championships in the United States, one national league championship in Germany, and an André Vergauwen Cup championship with Italian club Tabu Cantu.
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Troy Sachs was born in Bulli, New South Wales.[1][2][3][4]
In 2006, Sachs had shoulder surgery and required extensive rehabilitation that threatened to derail his ability to compete in the 2008 Paralympics.[5]
On 11 August 2010, Sachs competed in the 14km long Sydney City2Surf competitions, where he raised nearly $2,000 in support of Wheelchair Sport New South Wales's Junior Sports Program.[6]
Troy Sachs is a wheelchair basketball player from Australia. His wheelchair basketball classification is 4.5 and his position is centre.[3] He started playing wheelchair basketball in 1991, at the age of 15.[7]
Sachs made his first national team appearance in 1992.[7] In 1998, Sachs competed at the World Championships, where the Rollers finished fourth. In 2002, Sachs was part of the Australian national side that finished fourth at the World Championships. In 2004, Sachs was part of the Australian team that finished first at the Roosevelt Cup.[3]
Sachs was part of the gold medal winning team at the Kiakyushu Cup held in Japan in 2005.[8] Sachs did not compete for the national team at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup because of European club commitments.[9] Sachs could not compete in the 2006 World Championships because of injury.[10]
Sachs was part of the gold medal winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[11][12] the silver medal winning team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics,[12][13] and the gold medal winning team at the 1996 Summer Paralympics.[12][14]
Sachs competed in two Paralympic games where he did not win a medal, including the 2000 Summer Paralympics] in Sydney, where his team finished fifth, and the 1992 Summer Paralympics, where the Rollers finished eighth.[3]
At the 1996 Games, in the gold medal match, Sachs scored 42 points, a world record for the number of points scored.[7] At the 2000 and 2004 games, Sachs captained the Australian national team. At the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, he led his team in total scoring across the whole of the competition,[3] with a score of 72-60 when the team defeated Canada. In the tournament, he averaged 5.4 points a game, but scored 19 total points in the final.[5] Sachs was the only 2008 team member that had also been on the 1996 gold medal winning team.[2]
In 1998, Sachs competed for the West Sydney Slicks, where he helped guide the team to a league championship. In 1998, 1999 and 2000, he participated in the Australian National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL), where he was the league MVP and All Star Five Australian League. He led the league in scoring in 1998, 1999 and 2000. Sachs played for the West Sydney Razorbacks in the NWBL in 2001, and helped the club win the championship. That year, he was named the league MVP and was a member of the All-Star Five. He also led the league in scoring. In 2002, he was named to the NWBL All-Star Five.[3] In 2008, Sachs played for the West Sydney Razorbacks.[15]
In 2003, Sachs helped the RSC Rollis Zwickau become the German Cup Champions.[3]
Sachs played with the Italian club side Tabu Cantu in 2001 and 2002. In 2001, he helped guide to team to a first place finish in the European League and the following year, to a third place finish.[3][16]
In 2008, Sachs played for Fundacion Polaris World BSR.[15]
Sachs joined the Turkish team, Galatasaray Wheelchair Basketball Team for the 2009–10 season.[17]
Sachs played club wheelchair basketball for the Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks in 1998, 1999 and 2000. In all three years, the team won the league championships. In 1998 and 1999, he was named as part of the All Star Five in the NWBA (USA).[3]
In 1996, Sachs was awarded for the Most Outstanding Individual Performance at the Games by the Australian Paralympic Committee. Sachs was a finalist for the Young Australian of the Year Award in 1997 and 1999. In 1997, Sachs received the Order of Australia Medal for Excellence and Service to wheelchair basketball.[7] In 1999, Sachs was named as one of Cosmopolitan’s 30 most successful people under the age of thirty.[3]