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Leonid Stadnyk



Leonid Stadnyk
Леонід Стадник

Leonid Stadnyk with Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, 18 January 2006
Born1971
Podolyantsi, Chudnivsky Raion,
Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR,  Soviet Union
Known forTallest living human being
Height2.59 m (8 ft 6 in)
Weight200 kg (440 lb/31 st)

Leonid Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Іванович Стадник) (born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is the world's tallest living man according to Guinness World Records 2008.[1] He is a certified veterinarian and veterinary surgeon and lives with his mother in the village of Podolyantsi, Ukraine. Leonid Stadnyk's excessive growth began after brain surgery when he was 12 years old. He developed a pituitary gland tumor which caused the gland to secrete large amounts of growth hormone, resulting in what doctors describe as acromegalic gigantism.

On August 8, 2007, Guinness book's spokeswoman Amarilis Espinoza stated that in the 2008 edition of the record book, Mr Stadnyk at 2.59m, replaces Bao Xishun, a native of Inner Mongolia in China who stands 2.36 m. In the past, Stadnyk refused to be measured and consequently denied the GWR recognition. In 2007, the Guinness World Records was permitted to take height measurements, thereby officially recognizing Stadnyk as the world's tallest man. [2]

A Pravda news report in Spring 2006 reported that Leonid Stadnyk grew 2 cm (0.79 in) in the previous year, not accounting the time between the original Spring 2004 report and Spring 2005. According to Pravda, his health is slowly failing in that he needs to hold on to limbs of trees and the side of his house to walk about. A group of Ukrainian business people donated a satellite dish and a computer to Stadnyk and now he has access to the Internet.

References

  1. ^ press release. Guinness World Records 2008 (2007-08-07). Retrieved on 2007-08-09. “The world authority on record breaking launches with more astounding new records including the introduction of the tallest living human being: Leonid Standnyk (8ft 5.5in tall)”
  2. ^ Leonid Stadnyk named world's talllest man. MSN Hotlist.
Preceded by
Bao Xishun
Tallest Person
August 7, 2007 –
Succeeded by
Incumbent
Persondata
NAME Stadnyk, Leonid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Стадник, Леонід
SHORT DESCRIPTION Worlds tallest living human
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
 
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