How tall is Brian Shaw?

Brian Shaw is commonly listed at 6 ft 6¾ in (200 cm).

A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from

Brian Shaw’s 6 ft 6¾ in (200 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.

Other reports range from 6 ft 6¾ in (200 cm) to 6 ft 8 in (203.2 cm); the drawing and the comparisons on this page use 6 ft 6¾ in (200 cm). Each one is listed below with its source.

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Brian Shaw beside others

Brian Shaw is in the middle of the 6 strongmen we have heights for: Angus MacAskill (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 2 in (36 cm) taller and Eddie Hall (6 ft 2 in) is 4.5 in (12.1 cm) shorter.

Robert Oberst: 6 ft 7 in (200.7 cm), 0.3 in (0.6 cm) taller than Brian Shaw.
Žydrūnas Savickas: 6 ft 3.5 in (192 cm), 3 in (8 cm) shorter than Brian Shaw.
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson: 6 ft 8.5 in (205 cm), 2 in (5 cm) taller than Brian Shaw.

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Eddie Hall 6 ft 2 in

Where this height comes from

This listing comes from Wikipedia. It is not a dated measurement, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

6 ft 6¾ in (200 cm)

Brian Shaw is commonly listed at 6 ft 6¾ in (200 cm). From a body-fat test video on his own channel.

Source: Wikipedia

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6 ft 8 in (203.2 cm)

Brian Shaw is commonly listed at 6 ft 8 in (203.2 cm). From his World’s Strongest Man profile.

Source: Wikipedia

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Photo: Paula R. Lively from Zanesville, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Brian Shaw, 6 ft 7 in (200 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)