On the 13th of November, the tallest recorded man in the world and the shortest recorded man in the world met for the first time in London for the 10th annual Guinness World Records Day.
The event celebrates record-setting achievements from around the world and brought Sultan Kosen from Turkey and Chandra Buhadur Dangi from Nepal to meet.
Sultan is 31 and became the world’s tallest living man in 2009, measuring 8 feet, 3 inches tall. he can reach a basketball hoop without jumping and also holds the record for the largest hands on a living person – 11.2 inches from wrist to tip of his middle finger.
Chandra is 74 and became the world’s shortest living man in 2012 – measuring just 21.5 (54 cm! – thats not much taller than a standard ruler).
Sultan says that meeting Chandra was amazing and claims that although Chandra is small and he is tall, they have both faced similar struggles in their lives.
Thousands of people from all over the world took part in the Guinness World Records event, with new records in Australia, France, Dubai, China, Japan, Germany, the United States and the UK.
Article written by D Mulhern
36 Responses
Sultan-far out his hands are huge let alone his body
Chandra-oh my gosh thats like shorter than my familys new born baby
I cannot believe that that happend, little guy looks like he’s on his knees
Omg
WOW I would like to met the shortest and tallest women
cool
This was so amazing.-_-
I wish I was the world tallest woman on earth
what, that is weird.:-]
He has been the tallest living man for 5 years! 😉
WOW that is so cool but so weird. How did they get to meet????
Wow small
Wow that’s amazing
It’s really cool that they meet each other. Sultan would be awesome to be on the same basketball team as him and Chandra would be awesome at playing capture the flag! ☺
Wow that is so cool that they got to meet each other
wow
cool
If only I could meet them?
Wow that’s so short and
D so tall he’s 8 foot and hes 51 centremetres I wish I was that tall
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thats cool they meet
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Wowthat is awsome
WOW! Can’t believe how short he is!
54cm man is a baby that short
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chandra is the height of 2 rulers
I didn’t such people with really long legs and really short legs
Dude look at them
Wow
tiny!!!!!!!!
Dam hes short and hes tall
wow it’s amazing that they are able to be super tall and minutely small!
cool
wow!!!
Man, he’s tall. and it looks like the little guy is on his knees!
WOW he is only 54cm!!!
hhhhhhooooowwwwwww tall is hee like 3.99m
that is soooooo coooool i mean the worlds tallest and shortest man meeting together i wish i was there.
wow