Tallest man in the world?

Question

Tallest man in the world?

Answer 1

The tallest man in the world is a Chinese gentleman, if that is your question. Can't remember his name.

Answer 2

Yao Ming

Answer 3

Robert Pershing Wadlow

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/reco...

Answer 4

vote me as best answer

Tallest Man - Living

  

WHO:

Leonid Stadnyk

WHAT:

2.57 m (8 ft 5.5 in)

WHERE:

Ukraine

WHEN:

2006

  

The tallest living man is Leonid Stadnyk (Ukraine, b.1971), who measured 2.57 m (8 ft 5.5 in) in 2006.

Mr Stadnyk suffers from acromegalic gigantism caused by a tumour on his pituitary gland that stimulated the over-production of the growth hormone.

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TALLEST MAN NOT LIVING

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.