6 ft 2.5 in (189 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
How tall was Lev Yashin?
Lev Yashin is commonly listed at 6 ft 2.5 in (189 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Lev Yashin’s 6 ft 2.5 in (189 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.
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Lev Yashin beside others
Lev Yashin is one of the taller association football players we have heights for: Jan Koller (6 ft 7.5 in) stands 5 in (13 cm) taller and Chanathip Songkrasin (5 ft 2 in) is 1 ft 0 in (31 cm) shorter. All 207 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 6 ft 2.5 in: Rinat Dasayev, Julian Nagelsmann and Viktor Gyökeres.
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Where this height comes from
Photo: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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