Luke Pople

Luke Pople

Pople at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1991-06-06) 6 June 1991 (age 33)
Sport
Position	Point guard
Disability class	2.5
Medal record World Championship 2014 Incheon Team 2018 Hamburg Team Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 3x3 Men's Team

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]

• Basketball Australia Profile^{[dead link‍]}
• Luke Pople at Commonwealth Games Australia
• Luke Pople at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
• Luke Pople on Instagram