6 ft 4 in (193 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 Phelps?
Michael Phelps is commonly listed at 6 ft 4 in (193 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Michael Phelps’s 6 ft 4 in (193 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.
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Michael Phelps beside others
Michael Phelps is the tallest of the 7 swimmers we have heights for: Adam Peaty (6 ft 3 in) is next, 1 in (2 cm) shorter.
- Adam Peaty: 6 ft 3 in (191 cm), 1 in (2 cm) shorter than Michael Phelps.
- Léon Marchand: 6 ft 1.5 in (187 cm), 2.5 in (6 cm) shorter than Michael Phelps.
- Katie Ledecky: 6 ft 0 in (182.9 cm), 4 in (10.2 cm) shorter than Michael Phelps.
Where this height comes from
Photo: Agência Brasil Fotografias, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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