To add to this, assuming your numbers are right (I haven’t checked), there have been multiple people born since 1980 who ended up taller than 242cm, which I expect would make any single normal distribution extremely unlikely to be a good model (either a poor fit on the tails, or a poor fit on a large share of the data), given our data:
https://​​en.m.wikipedia.org/​​wiki/​​List_of_tallest_people
I suppose some have specific conditions that led to their height. I don’t know if all or most do.
To add to this, assuming your numbers are right (I haven’t checked), there have been multiple people born since 1980 who ended up taller than 242cm, which I expect would make any single normal distribution extremely unlikely to be a good model (either a poor fit on the tails, or a poor fit on a large share of the data), given our data: https://​​en.m.wikipedia.org/​​wiki/​​List_of_tallest_people
I suppose some have specific conditions that led to their height. I don’t know if all or most do.