tallest man in the world?

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his name and country, photo

Answer 1

Two years ago Russian newspapers published a dramatic story about Leonid Stadnik, a village resident of Ukrainian province. The man suffer from his own height: Leonid was 254 centimeters tall back in those days. It has recently become known that the tallest man in the world is still growing.

Leonid Stadnik

Leonid Stadnik lives in his house in a small Ukrainian village of Podolyantsy. The man has to take quite an effort to be able to enter the house: he is almost twice as high as the doorway. Stadnik, 35, is a huge man indeed, although he is very kind and absolutely not aggressive despite all of the problems that he has to experience in his everyday life. His unique height as well as the size of his hands and feet is not of natural origin. Leonid became a giant because of doctors’ efforts. He used to be a common boy, a straight-A student at school. The mutation happened after the removal of the brain tumor. Neurosurgeons said that the tumor was the size of hypophysis. Doctors touched the brain organ during an operation. The incident subsequently gave rise to anomalous processes in the body of a healthy sixth-grader. In addition, Leonid mother, Galina, said that the surgeons also damaged the optic nerve during the operation.

The shoes that Leonid wears nowadays are 62 centimeters long. It is very hard for him to walk and even to move: Leonid can hardly control his own legs. When he walks he needs to hold on to something – it could be a tree or the roof of his house.

Leonid’s mother has recently been operated on. The woman had a thigh-bone fracture, which was further aggravated with poor treatment at a local hospital. The gigantic man’s mother had to be operated on repeatedly in Kiev . This time the operation became possible owing to the help from Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.

“When I started growing they took me to the Institute of Neurosurgery in Ukraine. The doctors said that all internal organs were developing proportionately to my increasing height,” Leonid said.

Leonid has been declared a disabled person. He receives 326 hryvnas (the Ukrainian currency, the amount equals $60) of pension according to his status. The pension of Leonid’s mother is a little higher – 386 hryvnas. Needless to say that the family lives from hand to mouth.

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Answer 2

Tallest Man

WHO:
Robert Pershing Wadlow
WHAT:
2.72 m (8 ft 11 in)
WHERE:
Alton, Illinois, USA
WHEN:
Last measured on July 15, 1940

The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence is Robert Pershing Wadlow. He was born at Alton, Illinois, USA, on February 22, 1918, and when he was last measured on June 27, 1940, was found to be 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall.

Wadlow died at 1:30 a.m. on July 15, 1940, in a hotel in Manistee, Michigan, as a result of a septic blister on his right ankle caused by a brace, which had been poorly fitted only a week earlier. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Alton, in a coffin measuring 3.28 m (10 ft 9 in) long, 81 cm (32 in) wide and 76 cm (30 in) deep.

Wadlow's greatest recorded weight was 222.71 kg (35 st 1 lb) on his 21st birthday and he weighed 199 kg (31 st 5 lb) at the time of his death. His shoe size was 37AA (47 cm, 18½ in long) and his hands measured 32.4 cm (12¾ in) from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger. He wore a size 25 ring. His arm span was 2.88 m (9 ft 5¾ in) and his peak daily food consumption was 8000 calories.

At the age of nine, he was able to carry his father Harold F. Wadlow, later Mayor of Alton, who stood 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) and weighed 77 kg (170 lb), up the stairs of the family home.

http://guinnessworldrecords.com/records/human_body/extreme_bodies/tallest_man.aspx

Answer 3

The tallest man in the world at 8ft 11.1 in. (272cm)...was Robert Wadlow born in Illinois, U.S.A.
He died in 1940.

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