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Perhaps we can scale BotW Link from this ARTWORK.
This is going to be crazy. Buckle your seat belts cause we're entering Rainbow Road!
First I need to stablish Mario height as 100 cm or 3'3. I've compared him to New Donk City elements and reached this conclusion. More details HERE.
If Mario is 100 cm tall, that makes Ganon 240 cm or 7'9 in this OFFICIAL CHART I've also scaled. ALttP Link is 135 or 4'4 cm by the way (the same height as the Hero of Twilight).
In The Legend of Zelda (NES) Link is half Ganon sprite, whom looks the SAME as his ALttP version even though the model is less detailed due to graphic limitations.
Ganon: 32 pixels = 240 cm
Link: 16 pixels = 120 cm or 3'11
Using this value in the artwork above BotW Link is 160 cm or 5'2 tall.
Ps.: It can be argued Classic Link was supposed to be the same height as his counterpart from ALttP (135 cm). If that's the case, BotW Link would be 180 cm or 5'9 tall. I think 160 cm is more consistent though.
That's an interesting bit of reading, but you've made a mistake regarding some conversations of metric to imperial. For example, 180cm is not 5'9, it's actually 5'11. 175cm is more around the 5'9 figure. To be specific, of course, 180.34cm is 5'11, 180cm is a bit under 5'11.
I always assumed Link, as a teenager, would be as tall as 5'8. He appears that tall proportionally in Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess. In Ocarina of Time, he can seem between 5'6 to 5'7. I heard one argument stipulating that if the Gerudo, who are 8ft tall, are twice Link's height, then Link in Breath of the Wild must be 6'0.