How tall is Oleh Blokhin?

Oleh Blokhin's listed height is 180 cm (5'11").

Blokhin next to his teammates

Igor Belanov is 7 cm shorter than Oleh Blokhin (173 cm), teammate at FC Dynamo Kyiv from 1985 to 1988.

Oleh Protasov is 6 cm taller than Oleh Blokhin (186 cm), teammate at Soviet Union national association football team from 1984 to 1988.

About Oleh Blokhin

Oleh Blokhin is a Ukrainian former football player and manager, born on 5 November 1952 in Kyiv. He was a striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union.

Blokhin holds the all-time top goalscorer record for Dynamo Kyiv, with 266 goals, and for the Soviet Union national team, with 42 goals, and he scored 211 goals in the Soviet Top League. He is the only player capped over 100 times for the Soviet Union and holds Dynamo's appearance record of 582 during his 18 years at the club. With Dynamo he won eight Soviet league titles, five national cups and two European Cup Winners' Cups. In 1975 he won the Ballon d'Or as European Footballer of the Year. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games and the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, and later managed Ukraine at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2012.

At a listed 180 cm (5'11"), Blokhin is 7 cm taller than Igor Belanov, who is listed at 173 cm (5'8") and was his teammate at FC Dynamo Kyiv from 1985 to 1988. Oleh Protasov, listed at 186 cm (6'1"), is 6 cm taller and was his Soviet Union teammate from 1984 to 1988.

Frequently asked

How tall is Oleh Blokhin in feet and inches? Oleh Blokhin is 5'11" tall, which is 180 cm, 70.9 inches or 1.80 m.

How tall is Oleh Blokhin compared to Igor Belanov? Igor Belanov is 7 cm shorter than Oleh Blokhin: 173 cm (5'8") vs 180 cm (5'11").

How tall is Oleh Blokhin compared to Oleh Protasov? Oleh Protasov is 6 cm taller than Oleh Blokhin: 186 cm (6'1") vs 180 cm (5'11").

Sources

• Oleh Blokhin on Wikipedia — biography and career.
• Oleh Blokhin on Wikidata — nationality and dates; height recorded as 180 cm.

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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