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Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table , original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered.
Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.
Second-tallest man in the Netherlands; he was known as the giant of Rotterdam. Early June 2011, a life-size statue of Rijnhout was unveiled in the Oude Westen district in Rotterdam. [47] 1922–1959 (36) Yoshimitsu Matsuzaka Japan: 237 cm: 7 ft 9.3 in: Tallest man in Japan; no color images of him exist even though he died in the 1960s. [48]
At 5 years of age, attending kindergarten, Wadlow was 5 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1.69 m) tall. He wore clothes that would fit a 17-year-old boy. 15-year-old 1923 6 years 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) 146 lb (66 kg) Height of average adult male (global average). 1924 7 years 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 159 lb (72 kg) Height of average adult male in the United States.
White was born on August 2, 1994, [14] in Tampa, Florida. He attended Carrollwood Day School and was a member of the varsity basketball team. [15] [16] He is 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall. [17] White attended the University of Tampa and graduated with a bachelor's degree in human sciences with a focus on exercise physiology.
In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.
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White has participated in five Winter Olympics in his career. At the 2006, 2010, and 2018 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the snowboard halfpipe event. White has also participated in the Winter X Games, where he has won a medal every year since 2002. Including all winter X Games competitions through 2013, his medal count stands at 18 (13 ...