{"id":270855,"date":"2025-11-08T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270855\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:44:13","slug":"olivier-rioux-sets-record-for-tallest-college-basketball-player-university-of-florida-gators-worlds-tallest-teen-how-tall-is-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270855\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivier Rioux sets record for tallest college basketball player, University of Florida Gators, world\u2019s tallest teen, how tall is he?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivier Rioux, a 19-year-old Canadian recognised as the world\u2019s tallest teen, has set another record as the tallest player in United States college basketball for the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-foot-9 (2.36m) freshman from Terrebonne, Quebec, was brought onto the court with two minutes and nine seconds remaining in Florida\u2019s 104-64 home triumph over North Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Rioux sat out all of last season before making his date with destiny on Friday AEDT. <\/p>\n<p>Watch NBA with ESPN on Kayo Sports | Stream an average 9 LIVE Regular Season games per week plus the best of the NBA Playoffs.| New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/?pg=default&amp;extcamp=ncaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-new-lnk-awr-grc-basketball-kyo&amp;channel=nca&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giddey keeps cooking as hot streak holds | 00:36<\/p>\n<p>He came on to the court at the end of a lopsided win after students called to have Rioux make history.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt great. The support from everybody was amazing, on the bench and in the stands,\u201d Rioux said. \u201cI\u2019m very grateful.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Rioux never touched the ball during his limited time in the game. He said it wasn\u2019t tough waiting for his first appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMentally, you just keep going, I guess,\u201d Rioux said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about setting the height record, Rioux replied with a smile, \u201cJust another day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivier Rioux, a 19-year-old Canadian recognised as the world\u2019s tallest teen, has set another record as the tallest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[2095,64,63,11309,2065,724,157540,157538,800,2755,590,2041,2067,156331,2111,85,157536,157537,157542,157539,157541,2614,57046],"class_list":["post-270855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball-player","tag-canada","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-basketball-player","tag-college-basketballer","tag-espn-inc","tag-florida","tag-nba","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-olivier-rioux","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-tallest-basketball-player","tag-tallest-college-basketball","tag-tallest-player","tag-tallest-teen","tag-terrebonne","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-university-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}