Who is the worlds tallest man?”
Bao Xishun is a herdsman from Inner Mongolia, China, who is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest living man. Guinness World Records has returned the title of world’s tallest man back to him after Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk took over the title shortly. After Stadnyk refused to be measured under new guidelines, which required him to be independently measured by Guinness World Records’s adjudicators, the title was returned to Xishun. Bao Xishun, born in Inner Mongolia, measured at 2.361 meters (7 ft 8.95 in) tall at the Chifeng City Hospital. Two other men, Ajaz Ahmed and the late Vikas Uppal, have claimed to be over 8 feet tall,[citation needed] but these claims have not been independently verified. Bao suffers from rheumatism, although this has been attributed to his childhood habit of sleeping outdoors, rather than a height-linked disorder. Bao Xishun claims to have been of normal height until he was 16 when he experienced a growth spurt for unknown reasons and rea
New world’s tallest man stands at a towering 8ft 5ins by REBECCA CAMBER He has spent years shrinking away from the limelight and at school his nickname was ‘titch’ because he was so tiny. But Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk has now officially become the world’s tallest man standing at a towering 8ft 5ins in tall. Measuring an impressive 8ins taller than the previous record holder, Mongolia’s Bao Xishun, it has long been suspected that Stadnyk should hold the official title of the world’s tallest man. But until now the 37-year-old former veterinarian has always refused to be officially measured for the Guinness Book of Records as he hates his height and didn’t want to be famous. The towering giant who lives in Podoliantsi, a tiny village in Ukraine has called his height ‘God’s biggest punishment for me’ and refuses to look in the mirror.
