How Tall Are Famous Track & Field Athletes?

Browse the heights of famous Track & Field Athletes in centimeters and feet, and open any profile to compare it with average heights — or with your own.

Virgilijus Alekna — 202 cm (6'8")

Ryan Crouser — 201 cm (6'7")

Usain Bolt — 195 cm (6'5")

Blanka Vlašić — 193 cm (6'4")

Dick Fosbury — 193 cm (6'4")

Al Oerter — 192 cm (6'4")

Yulimar Rojas — 192 cm (6'4")

Kirani James — 191 cm (6'3")

David Rudisha — 190 cm (6'3")

Liu Xiang — 189 cm (6'2")

Mutaz Essa Barshim — 189 cm (6'2")

Asafa Powell — 188 cm (6'2")

Mike Powell — 188 cm (6'2")

Karsten Warholm — 187 cm (6'2")

Roger Bannister — 187 cm (6'2")

Bobby Morrow — 186 cm (6'1")

Edwin Moses — 186 cm (6'1")

Justin Gatlin — 186 cm (6'1")

Marcell Jacobs — 186 cm (6'1")

Deion Sanders — 185 cm (6'1")

Letsile Tebogo — 185 cm (6'1")

Yuriy Sedykh — 185 cm (6'1")

Femke Bol — 184 cm (6'0")

Nafissatou Thiam — 184 cm (6'0")

Avery Brundage — 183 cm (6'0")

Sandra Perković — 183 cm (6'0")

Thomas Burke — 183 cm (6'0")

Valeriy Borzov — 183 cm (6'0")

Emil Zátopek — 182 cm (5'12")

Armand Duplantis — 181 cm (5'11")

Tyson Gay — 181 cm (5'11")

Lasse Virén — 180 cm (5'11")

Marie-José Pérec — 180 cm (5'11")

Noah Lyles — 180 cm (5'11")

Pietro Mennea — 180 cm (5'11")

Stefka Kostadinova — 180 cm (5'11")

Yaroslava Mahuchikh — 180 cm (5'11")

Yohan Blake — 180 cm (5'11")

Dafne Schippers — 179 cm (5'10")

Joshua Cheptegei — 179 cm (5'10")

Anita Włodarczyk — 178 cm (5'10")

Carolina Klüft — 178 cm (5'10")

Jesse Owens — 178 cm (5'10")

Kelvin Kiptum — 178 cm (5'10")

Marion Jones — 178 cm (5'10")

Abebe Bikila — 177 cm (5'10")

Irena Szewińska — 176 cm (5'9")

Sebastian Coe — 176 cm (5'9")

Fanny Blankers-Koen — 175 cm (5'9")

James Connolly — 175 cm (5'9")

Mo Farah — 175 cm (5'9")

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone — 175 cm (5'9")

Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk — 174 cm (5'9")

Paavo Nurmi — 174 cm (5'9")

Yelena Isinbayeva — 174 cm (5'9")

Kip Keino — 173 cm (5'8")

Milkha Singh — 172 cm (5'8")

Julien Alfred — 171 cm (5'7")

Marita Koch — 171 cm (5'7")

Florence Griffith Joyner — 170 cm (5'7")

Sifan Hassan — 170 cm (5'7")

Babe Didrikson Zaharias — 169 cm (5'7")

Allyson Felix — 168 cm (5'6")

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya — 168 cm (5'6")

Elaine Thompson-Herah — 167 cm (5'6")

Eliud Kipchoge — 167 cm (5'6")

Sally Pearson — 167 cm (5'6")

Tirunesh Dibaba — 166 cm (5'5")

Dana Zátopková — 165 cm (5'5")

Haile Gebrselassie — 165 cm (5'5")

Jessica Ennis-Hill — 165 cm (5'5")

Kenenisa Bekele — 165 cm (5'5")

Cathy Freeman — 164 cm (5'5")

Nawal El Moutawakel — 162 cm (5'4")

Olga Kaniskina — 161 cm (5'3")

Oscar Pistorius — 160 cm (5'3")

Faith Kipyegon — 157 cm (5'2")

Meseret Defar — 155 cm (5'1")

Vivian Cheruiyot — 154 cm (5'1")

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce — 152 cm (4'12")

Celebrity heights are based on widely reported public figures and can vary slightly between sources.