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    Gobert climbs to sixth place on all-times blocks leaderboard

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    Gobert is still a force for France

    Rudy Gobert's rim protection resulted in 2 blocks against Brazil to give the big man 20 swats all-time. Gobert moved into sixth place in the career blocks list.

    LILLE (France) - France center Rudy Gobert jumped one spot in the all-time leaderboard for blocks in Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament history in moving to sixth place after a strong outing against Brazil.

    Another block for Rudy Gobert

    Gobert swatted two shots in France's 78-66 win over Brazil to start Paris 2024, moving the center to 20 blocks all-time. That pushed him out of the tie with Iran legend Hamed EHaddadi and past Andrew Bogut of Australia for sixth place in Olympics history.

    Gobert's next block will pull him even with Andres Nocioni of Argentina and China's Yi Jianlian with 21 for fourth place.

    Most blocks all-time at the Olympics

    Rank

    Player

    Team

    Blocks

    1

    Pau Gasol

    Spain

    47

    2

    Andrei Kirilenko

    Russia

    35

    3

    Yao Ming

    China

    26

    4

    Andres Nocioni

    Argentina

    21

     

    Yi Jianlian

    China

    21

    6

    Rudy Gobert

    France

    20

    7

    Andrew Bogut

    Australia

    19

    8

    Hamed EHaddadi

    Iran

    18

    9

    Luis Scola

    Argentina

    17

     

    Nicolas Batum*

    France

    17

     

    Salah Mejri

    Tunisia

    17

    *Active players

    The block was introduced as a statistic for the Olympics in 2000.

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