5 ft 8 in (173 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 is Michael Owen?
Michael Owen is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Michael Owen’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 39 in 100 US men are shorter.
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Michael Owen beside others
Michael Owen is one of the shorter association football players we have heights for: Jan Koller (6 ft 7.5 in) stands 11.5 in (29 cm) taller and Chanathip Songkrasin (5 ft 2 in) is 6 in (15 cm) shorter. All 207 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 8 in: Takefusa Kubo and Kieran Trippier.
- Raheem Sterling: 5 ft 7.5 in (172 cm), 0.4 in (1 cm) shorter than Michael Owen.
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Where this height comes from
Photo: David Seow, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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