Leonid Stadnyk

Leonid Stepanovych Stadnyk (; 5 August 1970 – 24 August 2014) was a Ukrainian man who claimed to have stood at though photographic evidence suggests he was not taller than .

Death

Stadnyk died at the age of 44 on 24 August 2014 from a brain hemorrhage.

See also

• List of tallest people
• Bao Xishun, the previous holder of tallest man Guinness title
• Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), the tallest man in history
• Sultan Kösen, 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
• AP article
• San Clemente doctor gets to know giant, The Orange County Register
• Photo at Ukrainian country side, Photos in UemA
• Guinness official record of Leonid Stadnyk's height, based on a measurement by the Ukrainian Book of Records.