Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk ( uk , Леонід Степанович Стадник; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian man who claimed to have stood at though the photographic evidence suggests he was no more than 7 ft 9.5 in (2.39m).
Death
Stadnyk died at the age of 44 on 24 August 2014 from a
brain hemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain, into its ventricles, or into both. It is one kind of bleed ...
.
See also
*
List of tallest people
This is a list of the tallest people, verified by the Guinness World Records or other reliable sources.
According to the Guinness World Records, the tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), wh ...
*
Bao Xishun, the previous holder of tallest man Guinness title
*
Robert Wadlow
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raise ...
(1918–1940), the tallest man in history
*
Sultan Kösen
Sultan Kösen (born 10 December 1982) is a Turkish farmer who holds the Guinness World Record for tallest living male at . Of Kurdish ethnicity, he is the seventh-tallest man in history.
Kösen's growth resulted from the conditions gigantism ...
, the current tallest man in Guinness title
References
External links
* https://www.gq.com/story/lenoid-stadnyk-tallest-man-russia-200503?printable=true
PHOTO from life of giant
San Clemente doctor gets to know giant The Orange County Register
Photos in UemA
*
Guinness official record of Leonid Stadnyk's height, based on a measurement by the Ukrainian Book of Records.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stadnyk, Leonid
1969 births
2014 deaths
People with gigantism
People from Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr National Agroecological University alumni
Ukrainian veterinarians