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Human height. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2][3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system. [4][5] In the early ...
Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. ... 179.9 cm (5 ft 11 in) 167.1 cm (5 ft 6 in) 1.08
5 ft 11 in 180 cm: 3 in 8 cm 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt: 6 ft 2 in 188 cm: Herbert Hoover: 5 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in 182 cm: 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in 6 cm 1928: Herbert Hoover: 5 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in 182 cm: Al Smith [58] 5 ft 11 in 180 cm: 1 ⁄ 2 in 1 cm 1924: Calvin Coolidge: 5 ft 10 in 178 cm: John W. Davis [58] 5 ft 11 in 180 cm: 1 in 3 cm 1920: Warren G ...
The shortest player ever in the old American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early, a 5-foot-3-inch (160 cm) jockey who took part in one play in one game for the Kentucky Colonels as a publicity stunt in 1969. (The shortest signed ABA players were Jerry Dover and Monte Towe, both 5 feet 7 inches or 170 centimetres.)
According to the Guinness World Records, the tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), who was 272 cm (8 ft 11 in). He received media attention in 1939 when he was measured to be the tallest man in the world, After reaching a height of 267 cm (8 ft 9 in). There are reports about even taller people ...
Height does not appear to be an advantage to spin bowling and few international spinners are ever much taller than 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in). Tall spin bowlers like Sulieman Benn 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) use extra pace and bounce, whereas spin is traditionally about using a looping, plunging trajectory at slow (70–90 km/h or 40–60 mph) speeds.
Waist-to-height ratio: the average ratio for US college competitive swimmers is 0.424 (women) and 0.428 (men); the ratios for a (US) normally healthy man or woman is 0.46–0.53 and 0.45–0.49 respectively; the ratio ranges beyond 0.63 for morbidly obese individuals. [15]
During World War I in Britain, the minimum height for soldiers was 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm). Thus thousands of men under this height were denied the opportunity to fight in the war. As a result of pressure to allow them entry, special "Bantam Battalions" were created composed of men who were 4 feet 10 inches (147 cm) to 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm ...