Leonid Ivanovych Stadnyk (Ukrainian: Леонід Іванович Стадник) (born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is the world's tallest living man, according to Guinness World Records 2008.[1] He is a certified veterinarian and veterinary surgeon and lives with his mother in the village of Podolyantsi, Ukraine. Leonid Stadnyk's excessive growth began after brain surgery when he was 14 years old. He developed a pituitary gland tumor which caused the gland to secrete large amounts of growth hormone, resulting in what doctors describe as acromegalic gigantism.
On August 8, 2007, Guinness book's spokeswoman Amarilis Espinoza stated that in the 2008 edition of the record book, Mr Stadnyk at 2.57m (8 ft 5.2 in), replaces Bao Xishun, a native of Inner Mongolia in China who stands 2.36 m (7 ft 8.9 in). In the past, Stadnyk refused to be measured and consequently denied the GWR recognition. In 2007, the Guinness World Records was permitted to take height measurements, thereby officially recognizing Stadnyk as the world's tallest man.[2] Others have questioned the legitimacy of the record, noting that Stadnyk has never been offically measured by Guinness World Records, only by the "Ukrainian Book of Records," and that the doctor originally credited by Guinness with confirming Stadnyk's height has denied ever measuring him.[3]
A Pravda news report in Spring 2006 reported that Leonid Stadnyk grew 2 cm (0.79 in) in the previous year, not accounting the time between the original Spring 2004 report and Spring 2005. According to Pravda, his health is slowly failing in that he needs to hold on to limbs of trees and the side of his house to walk about.
Twenty years after the surgery, the doctors have discovered the tumour had mysteriously disappeared and he is currently healthy.
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