How tall is Sami Hyypiä?

Sami Hyypiä's listed height is 195 cm (6'5"). He is taller than about 99% of men in Finland.

Where 195 cm sits among men in Finland

Taller than about 99% of men in Finland born in 1973 (average 179.6 cm).

Hyypiä next to his teammates

Jari Litmanen is 14 cm shorter than Sami Hyypiä (181 cm), teammate at Finland men's national football team from 1992 to 2010.

About Sami Hyypiä

Sami Hyypiä is a Finnish professional football manager and a former player who played as a centre-back. He was born on 7 October 1973 in Porvoo. He began his playing career with Ykkönen side Kumu and soon moved to Veikkausliiga club MyPa, where he spent four years and helped win the Finnish Cup in 1992 and 1995.

Hyypiä moved to Willem II in 1995, became captain and was nominated their player of the year. In 1999 he moved to Liverpool, the team he supported as a child, in a deal worth £2.6 million. By 2001 he regularly captained the team, and that season Liverpool won a cup treble of the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, plus the UEFA Super Cup and FA Community Shield. He won the Football League Cup again in 2003 and the 2004 to 05 Champions League, in which his defensive partnership with Jamie Carragher helped win the final. From 2009 to 2011 he played for Bayer Leverkusen, retiring as a player in 2011.

At a listed 195 cm (6'5"), Hyypiä is 14 cm taller than Jari Litmanen, listed at 181 cm (5'11"), his teammate at Liverpool F.C. from 2001 to 2002.

Frequently asked

How tall is Sami Hyypiä in feet and inches? Sami Hyypiä is 6'5" tall, which is 195 cm, 76.8 inches or 1.95 m.

How tall is Sami Hyypiä compared to Jari Litmanen? Jari Litmanen is 14 cm shorter than Sami Hyypiä: 181 cm (5'11") vs 195 cm (6'5").

Is Sami Hyypiä tall for men in Finland? At 195 cm he is taller than about 99% of men in Finland born in 1973, whose average height is 179.6 cm.

Sources

• Sami Hyypiä on Wikipedia — biography and career.
• Sami Hyypiä on Wikidata — nationality and dates; height recorded as 195 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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