How tall is Fanny Blankers-Koen?

Fanny Blankers-Koen's listed height was 175 cm (5'9"). She was taller than about 98% of women in the Netherlands.

Where 175 cm sits among women in the Netherlands

Taller than about 98% of women in the Netherlands born in 1918 (average 160.5 cm).

About Fanny Blankers-Koen

Fanny Blankers-Koen was a Dutch track and field athlete, born Francina Elsje Koen on 26 April 1918 in Baarn. She started competing in athletics in 1935 and took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics a year later. She died on 25 January 2004.

She is best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She competed there as a 30-year-old mother of two, which earned her the nickname the Flying Housewife, and she was the most successful athlete at the event. Although international competition stopped during World War II, she set several world records in that period, in events including the long jump, the high jump, and sprint and hurdling events. She also won five European titles and 58 Dutch championships, and set or tied 12 world records, the last in the pentathlon in 1951 at the age of 33.

Blankers-Koen stood a listed 175 cm (5'9"). She retired from athletics in 1955 and became captain of the Dutch female track and field team, and in 1999 the IAAF voted her Female Athlete of the Century.

Frequently asked

How tall is Fanny Blankers-Koen in feet and inches? Fanny Blankers-Koen was 5'9" tall, which is 175 cm, 68.9 inches or 1.75 m.

Is Fanny Blankers-Koen tall for women in the Netherlands? At 175 cm she was taller than about 98% of women in the Netherlands born in 1918, whose average height is 160.5 cm.

Sources

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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