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FIBA measured her at 220 cm, the press writes anything from 220 to 226, and nobody has ratified a figure. Her story, her numbers with their sources attached, and the question that will actually decide her career.

Guinness measured his feet at 34.30 cm and his hands at 23.20 cm, and gives his shoe size as an American 23 or a British 22. A Welsh rugby player one size smaller had the same problem in 2015 and got a news appeal rather than four brands.

Olivier Rioux is twenty, so the tallest teenager record this article was built on has lapsed. He became the tallest player ever to appear in a college game, then played seventeen minutes in a season.

Anna Haining Swan and Martin Van Buren Bates were married at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 17 June 1871, and spent three years touring from Britain before they ever set up house in Ohio. This is the British side of the story, and an honest look at how uncertain their measurements are.

Guinness gives the tallest woman ever 246.3 cm, not the 2.48 m that circulates. The figure is an estimate, because her scoliosis meant she could not be measured standing, and the same was true of the Birmingham woman she displaced.

Adam Rainer was measured at 122.55 cm on an army medical bench in 1917 and at 234 cm on his deathbed in 1950, and no other case like it exists. This article separates what the record actually holds from the claims that have grown around it.

Guinness measures foot length in centimetres, not shoe size, and it publishes a British size for only one of the five record holders. Here is what has actually been measured, who measured it, and what the numbers become on a British shoe scale.