Troy Sachs
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| Full name | Troy Sachs |
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Born |
3 December 1975 Bulli, New South Wales |
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| Club | West Sydney Razorbacks (NWBL) |
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Troy Sachs, OAM (born 3 December 1975) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He competed at five Paralympic Games from 1992 to 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.
Sachs was born in the Wollongong suburb of Bulli on 3 December 1975. He was born without a tibia and with a deformed foot, and the affected leg was amputated below the knee when he was two and a half years old; he has worn a prosthetic leg since then.
In 2006, Sachs had shoulder surgery and required extensive rehabilitation that threatened to derail his ability to compete in the 2008 Paralympics.
On 11 August 2010, Sachs competed in the 14-kilometre (9 mi) Sydney City2Surf competitions, where he raised nearly $2,000 in support of Wheelchair Sport New South Wales's Junior Sports Program.
He is the founder and director of Team Sachs, a fitness business, which he established in 1997, and has been on the board of directors of the Australian Paralympic Committee since 2008. He is married to but separated from wheelchair basketballer Jane Sachs and the couple have a daughter.
Sachs' wheelchair basketball classification is 4.5 and his position is centre. He started playing wheelchair basketball in 1991, at the age of 15, after having been introduced to the sport at high school by a visiting lecturer on spine safety.
Sachs made his first team appearance for the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team in 1992. In 1998, he competed at the World Championships, where the Rollers finished fourth. In 2002, he was part of the Australian national side that finished fourth at the World Championships. In 2004, he was part of the Australian team that finished first at the Roosevelt Cup.
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