How tall is Marita Koch?

Marita Koch's listed height is 171 cm (5'7").

About Marita Koch

Marita Koch, later Meier-Koch, is a German former sprint track and field athlete, born on 18 February 1957 in Wismar, East Germany. She showed exceptional speed as a young child and defeated boys much older than herself in sprint races at school. By the age of 15 she was training under Wolfgang Meier, who worked as a naval engineer and coached athletics part-time.

Koch and Meier moved to Rostock, where she began to study medicine, but she decided to stop her studies and focus on running. Meier coached her for her entire career, and they later married. During her career she set 16 world records in outdoor sprints and 14 world records in indoor events, and she held world records over distances from 50 metres to 400 metres. Her record of 47.60 seconds in the 400 metres, set on 6 October 1985, still stands.

Koch is listed at 171 cm (5'7"). Her 400 metres record from 1985 remains the mark she is best known for.

Frequently asked

How tall is Marita Koch in feet and inches? Marita Koch is 5'7" tall, which is 171 cm, 67.3 inches or 1.71 m.

Sources

• Marita Koch on Wikipedia — biography and career.
• Marita Koch on Wikidata — nationality and dates; height recorded as 171 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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