Jane Sachs

{{short description|Australian wheelchair basketball player (born 1972)}}

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File:141100 - Wheelchair basketball Jane Webb passes - 3b - 2000 Sydney match photo.jpg

Jane Sachs (née Webb, born 19 June 1972) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player, who has won two medals at three Paralympics from 1996 to 2004.

Personal

Sachs was born in Hobart on 19 June 1972.{{cite web |url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/olym96/parabask.html |archiveurl=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000119130000/http://www.ausport.gov.au/olym96/parabask.html |archivedate=19 January 2000 |title=Australians at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics: wheelchair basketball |website=ausport.gov.au |publisher=Australian Sports Commission |accessdate=22 November 2012}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} She competed in running and played netball before an accident at the age of nine, when she fell from a tree and landed on an exposed tree root, breaking her back.{{cite news |title=Two of us |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=29 July 2000 |first=Amanda |last=Hooton |page=14}}{{cite news |url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=news980827_0139_4269 |title=Basketball in sitting style |work=The Illawarra Mercury |date=26 August 1998 |first=Paul |last=Suttor |page=54 |accessdate=23 November 2012}} She works as a consultant for Westpac and lives in Sydney.{{cite web |url=http://au.linkedin.com/pub/jane-sachs/4/900/a60 |title=Jane Sachs |publisher=LinkedIn |accessdate=22 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20121205213245/http://au.linkedin.com/pub/jane-sachs/4/900/a60 |archivedate=5 December 2012}} She was married to wheelchair basketballer Troy Sachs and the couple had a daughter.{{cite news |url=http://north-shore-times.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/our-troy-sacks-canada-and-pockets-a-gold/ |title=Our Troy sacks Canada and pockets a gold |work=North Shore Times |date=18 September 2008 |first=Omar |last=Hamwi |accessdate=22 November 2012}}{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/jane.sachs.1/about?lst=100002762325477%3A583321324%3A1507813204 |title=Jane Sachs: About |publisher=Facebook |accessdate=12 October 2017}}

Career

Sachs, a 3 point player, first represented Australia in the national wheelchair basketball squad at the 1989 FESPIC Games.{{cite web |title=Athlete Profile |website=paralympic.org.au |publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee |accessdate=22 November 2012 |url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/apc_athlete.asp?id=123 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071110061202/http://www.paralympic.org.au/apc_athlete.asp?id=123 |archivedate=10 November 2007}} She competed in the 1990 and 1994 Gold Cups, receiving a bronze medal in the latter event, and the 1994 FESPIC Games.{{cite web |url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/profiles/jane_webb.html |title=Jane Webb |website=paralympic.org.au |publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee |accessdate=22 November 2012 |archiveurl=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000206130000/http://www.paralympic.org.au/profiles/jane_webb.html |archivedate=6 February 2000}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Her first Paralympics was the 1996 Atlanta Games, where her team came fourth, and she won a bronze medal with her team at the 1998 Gold Cup.{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/jane-webb |title=Jane Webb |website=Paralympic.org |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=22 November 2012}} She won silver medals with her team at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Paralympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/jane-sachs |title=Jane Sachs |website=Paralympic.org |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=22 November 2012}} She has played for the West Sydney Razorbacks and, most recently, the Stacks Goudkamp Bears (previously the North Sydney Bears).{{cite web |url=https://www.basketball.net.au/new-look-wnwbl-ignites-this-weekend/index.html|title=New-look WNWBL ignites this weekend |publisher=Basketball Australia |date=3 June 2011 |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20180316073641/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/55686/20180316-0942/basketball.net.au/new-look-wnwbl-ignites-this-weekend/index.html|archive-date=16 March 2018 }}