6 ft 1 in (186 cm)
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
Gareth Bale is commonly listed at 6 ft 1 in (186 cm).
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Gareth Bale’s 6 ft 1 in (186 cm) is tall for a US man: about 93 in 100 US men are shorter.
Where your height fallsEveryone about 6 ft 1 in
Side by side with Eden Hazard, Lamine Yamal and Thomas Müller
Gareth Bale is one of the taller association football players we have heights for: Jan Koller (6 ft 7.5 in) stands 6.5 in (16 cm) taller and Chanathip Songkrasin (5 ft 2 in) is 11 in (28 cm) shorter. All 207 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 6 ft 1 in: Gonzalo Higuaín, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Jude Bellingham.
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
Photo: حسین ظهروند, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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