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Sultan Kösen - 8'1" (246.4 cm)
The 2010 edition of Guinness Book of World Records lists Sultan Kosen as the tallest living man as well as having the largest hands (10.8 inches) (27.5 centimeters) and largest feet (14.4 inches) (36.5 centimeters).
According to Guinness, he is the tallest living human reaching an average height of 8'1" (2,46.5 m) when measured by GWR in Ankara, Turkey, in February 2009. He takes over the title from China's Bao Xishun, who stands 'just' 2.36 metres (seven feet 8.95 inches).
Kosen was unable to complete his schooling because of his extreme height, but works occasionally as a farmer to support his family. Kosen has three brothers and a sister, who are all normal-sized, but his rate of growth surged from the age of 10 because of a tumour which caused too much growth hormone to be released from his pituitary gland. The tumour was successfully removed in surgery and he finally stopped growing last year (2008). He uses walking sticks and tires quickly if he is standing. Another pretender to the tallest title, Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, who claims to be 10.5 centimetres taller than Kosen, fails to qualify for the record because he refused to be measured by Guinness World Records officials. Guinness editor-in-chief Craig Glenday travelled to Turkey to personally validate Kosen's height under strict guidelines, measuring him three times in one day because bodies expand and shrink throughout the day.
Sultan Kosen has since been touring England, the U.S., Iceland, Spain, The Netherlands and Norway.
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The New Tallest Man In The World Visits London For The First Time
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 16: The worlds new tallest man Sultan Kosen 26, of Turkey poses in front of Tower Bridge to celebrate the launch of the 2010 Guinness Book of Records, on September 16, 2009 in London, England. Sultan Kosen stands at 8ft 1in and also holds the record for the largest hands and largest feet at 27.5cm and 36.5cm respectively. (scroll down for more pictures of Sultan Kosen's visit to London. Also included is a video).
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08-02-2010:
New page(s) added for Muhammad Hussein Heikal, Arvydas Sabonis, Eric Gingold and Roberto Duenas.
New image(s) of George Gracie, John Aasen, Kaatje van Dyk, Gottlieb Fischer, Joseph Drasal, Zech DeVits and Albert Johan Kramer added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Zeng Jinlian added.
07-02-2010:
Newspaper clipping(s) about Henry Clay Thruston and Mme. Abomah added.
06-02-2010:
New image(s) of Ewart Potgieter added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Conrad Furrows, Sandy Allen, George Bell, Anders Gustav Anderson, Edouard Beaupré and Clifford Marshall Thompson added.
05-02-2010:
New image(s) of Clifford Marshall Thompson added.
04-02-2010:
New image(s) of Santhosh Kumar added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Sandy Allen, Francis Sheridan, Clifford Marshall Thompson, Henry Mullens, Bernard Coyne, Delores Pullard, Conrad Furrows, Angus MacAskill, Anna Haining Swan, Robert Wadlow, Baptiste Hugo and Zeng Jinlian added.
03-02-2010:
New page(s) added for Patrick O'Conner, John Turner and Conrad Furrows. New image(s) of Joseph Schippers and Albert Brough added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Gabriel Estęvăo Monjane, Robert Hales, Sylvia Hardy, Robert Wadlow as well as a young Robert Wadlow added.
02-02-2010:
New page(s) added for George McArthur and Roman Gumenyuk added.
New image(s) of Lock Martin and Clifford Marshall Thompson added.
01-02-2010:
New page(s) added for Aleksandar Rindin, Boban Marjanovic, Hasheem Thabeet, Max Zhang and Choi Hong Man added.
New image(s) of Max Palmer and Henry Alexander Cooper added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Sandy Allen, Lars Tollefson Opsata and Christopher Greener added.
I have also moved one picture from Lock Martin's page to Max Palmer's page.
30-01-2010:
New image(s) of the van Droysen sister Dora Helms and Kaatje van Dyk added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Albert Brough, Charles Byrne, Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Christopher Greener and Jim Porter added.
29-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Emil Assad Rached, Louis Frenz and George Gracie.
New image(s) of Willie Camper, Fernand Bachelard, Ralph Madsen, Anna Haining Swan, Charles Byrne, Felipe Birriel Fernández, William Evans, Johann Petursson, Robert Wadlow and Walter Straube added.
28-01-2010:
New image(s) of Eddie Carmel, Cecil Boling, Väinö Myllyrinne, Henry Mullens, Baptiste Hugo, Ted Evans, Willie Camper, Rayford Johnson and Johann Petursson added.
27-01-2010:
New image(s) of Al Tomaini, Frederick Kempster, Jakob Nacken, Robert Wadlow and Johann Petursson added.
26-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Jakob Nacken. New image(s) of Jack Earle added.
Two medical articles about Frederick Kempster added. Based on new medical and photographic evidence (and the usual pressure :-)) I have upgraded Frederick Kempster's height.
25-01-2010:
New image(s) of Mianko Karoo and Gottlieb Fischer added.
24-01-2010:
Three movie stills of Suleiman Ali Nashnush added.
23-01-2010:
I have received a very friendly e-mail from James Kempster, Frederick's great-nephew. He explained that most of the information available on the internet about his great-uncle Frederick Kempster is pure fiction. James has written a more accurate early history of Frederick's life based on family stories and first-hand records of the Barnardo Organization. You can read James Kempster's 'Early Years of Frederick John Kempster, The English Giant' here....
22-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Mianko Karoo. New image(s) of Unknown Giants and Lewis Wilkins added.
21-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Alana Renaud, Zainab Bibi and Denis Albino.
New image(s) of Gabriel Estęvăo Monjane added. Newspaper clipping(s) about John Aasen and Ralph Madsen added.
20-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Viktor Zabolotny, Marianne Wehde, Matthew Langmaid, Rik Smits, Ellen Bayer and Gwen Bachman.
New image(s) of Kaatje van Dyk, Kurt Zehe, Arthur James Caley and Dora Helms added.
19-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Peter Iroga, Lyuba Shilo and Uljana Semjonova.
New image(s) of Johann Petursson, Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Rosa Wedsted, Jack Earle and Clifford Marshall Thompson added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Gilbert Reichert and Buck Nolan added.
18-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Knipe Brothers, Jaber Rouzbahani, Rob Bruintjes and Eugene Arceau. Newspaper clipping(s) about Robert Keenan added.
17-01-2010:
New images added to the Unknown Giants page.
16-01-2010:
New images(s) of Sultan Kösen, who had a meeting with He Ping Ping, and Henri Cot (as Joseph Dusorc) added. New video(s) of Ri Myong-hun added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Gilbert Reichert, Jim Porter, Mills Darden and Chang Woo-Gow added.
I have downgraded Dora Helms from 6'10" to 6'7" tall. Closer inspection of the images with Kaatje van Dyk suggest that she was only 6'7" at her peak (which was before she became one of the van Droysen sisters).
15-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Clive Darril.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Max Palmer, Carolina Rascón and Maria Fassnauer (Mariedl) added.
14-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Carl Gulliver, Forrest Glenn, Kurt Zehe and Wilhelm Ehmke. New images(s) of Buck Nolan, Erhard Weller and Pisjakoff added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Ivan Stepanovich Loushkin and Feodor Machnow added. Medical case study of Feodor Machnow and Franz Winkelmeyer added.
13-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Buck Nolan. New images(s) of Ewart Potgieter added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Ralph Madsen and Erwin Johnson added.
12-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Ewart Potgieter.
New images(s) of Frederick Kempster, Rigardus Rijnhout, Ralph Madsen, Henry Mullens, Erhard Weller, Mounir Fourar, Antonin Cros, Albert Johan Kramer and Don Koehler added. Newspaper clipping(s) about Jack Earle, Kaatje van Dyk, Dora Helms, Feodor Machnow, Ferdinand Contat, Albert Johan Kramer and Jim Tarver added.
11-01-2010:
New images(s) of Chang Woo-Gow added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Jack Earle, Erwin Johnson, Johann Petursson, Ted Evans, Eddie Carmel, Al Tomaini, Dave Ballard, Max Palmer and Clifford Marshall Thompson added.
10-01-2010:
Newspaper clipping(s) about Julius Koch, Maria Fassnauer (Mariedl) and Lewis Wilkins added.
09-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Willie Camper.
New images(s) of Robert Hales added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Jack Earle, Robert Wadlow, Erhard Weller, Don Koehler, Gottlieb Fischer, Jim Tarver, Ted Evans, Carolina Rascón and John Aasen added.
08-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Mahmoud Lotfi and Delores Pullard.
New images(s) of Max Palmer and Jim Tarver added.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Edouard Beaupré, Don Koehler, Franz Winkelmeyer, Max Palmer, Hassan Ali, George Auger, Clifford Marshall Thompson, Jack Earle, John Aasen and Baptiste Hugo added.
07-01-2010:
New page(s) added for (old) George Bell.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Eddie Carmel, Suleiman Ali Nashnush, Väinö Myllyrinne, Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Albert Johan Kramer (same clipping as Patrick Cotter O'Brien), Henri Cot, Sandy Allen, Jack Earle, John Aasen and Robert Wadlow added.
06-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Dave Ballard.
Newspaper clipping(s) about Henry Mullens, Max Palmer, John William Rogan, Zafar Ullah Satti, Walter Straube, Mohammad Alam Channa, Albert Johan Kramer and Robert Wadlow added. Also on the same page I've now added the Medical papers 'Report of a case' by Charles D. Humberd, M.D.. This report was the reason for Robert Wadlow to take Dr. Humberd to court.
05-01-2010:
Newspaper clipping(s) about Don Koehler, Cecil Boling, Gilbert Reichert, Yoshimitsu Matsuzaka, Alexander Sizonenko, Haji Mohammad Alam Channa, Sandy Allen (same image as Alam Channa) and Henry Mullens added. New video(s) of Yao Defen added. I have also upgraded Albert Johan Kramer from 7'8.25" to 7'9.5" after discussions (and pressure) on our forum and new photographic evidence.
04-01-2010:
New page(s) added for Captain Ureck and Hassan Ali.
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17-06-2009: Installed discussion forum. You can join it here...
12-06-2009: Started building the website.
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