Try to imagine a man with height of 2.47 meter! A very tall Turk was formally announced as the world's tallest man on Thursday after his rival who is a Ukrainian refused to be measured, disqualified and left Sultan Kosen unbeatable as the tallest man in the world.Sultan Kosen was measured by Guinness World Records said to have 2.47 meter or 8 foot 1 inch, He comes from eastern Turkey, to be precise from the town of Mardin, has now officially been crowned as the tallest man living and walking in the planet earth.
Leonid Stadnyk, his rival, a Ukrainian that has been reported to have height of 8 feet 5.5 inches (2.57 meters) but since he let no one to measure and confirm his height, Guinness said he was stripped of his title.
Stadnyk who turns out to be 39 this year, told the press that he declined to be independently measured because he was tired of being in the public eye, he want to be left one and want to live a normal life, the one he had before he was caught by media and reported widely.
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