She looked tiny and doll-like. Vovkovinskiy enjoyed another moment of celebrity in when then-president Barack Obama noticed him towering above the crowd at a political rally. Guinness World Records says the tallest person in the world now is a Turkish man named Sultan Kosen, who is 8 feet 2 inches tall 2. The tallest man in modern US history was Robert Wadlow, who was 8 feet 9 inches 2. He also suffered from a growth hormone disorder, and died in at the age of He'd have to crouch down if he needed to get inside and make a call, though.
For most, a shot in basketball would involve a running jump - or at least a well positioned throw - but Sultan barely has to stretch to comfortably place the ball in the net. A size 7 basketball the size used in the NBA has a circumference of 75 cm When he was a teenager, Sultan was signed to the Galatasaray basketball team, but unfortunately he was too tall to play.
He remains a fan of basketball to this day and joined in a game for a few shots when he was in New York a few years ago pictured above. As you can see, this average-sized car would be a squeeze for Sultan to get into.
The Guinness World Records book is Lastly, nothing puts Sultan's height into perspective than him standing next to someone else! When Sultan was last officially measured In Ankara, Turkey, on 8 February and the times before that the adjudicator had to stand on a stepladder to get the tape measure to reach above Sultan's head.
Kosen's extraordinary stature is a result of gigantism. He developed a pituitary tumor as a child, which caused his pituitary gland to produce an excessive amount of growth hormone.
Kosen's parents and siblings are all average height. Vance first learned of Kosen's case and first saw him as a patient in the spring of The Discovery Channel was doing a show on Kosen as the "World's Tallest Man," and Vance, as an expert in pituitary tumors, was asked to appear on it.
She put Kosen on a new medication he was already taking two others to try to bring down his growth hormone levels to a normal range. But medication alone would not be enough, so Vance consulted with a neurosurgeon to explore other options. Although his pituitary tumor was diagnosed when Kosen was 10 years old, efforts in his native Turkey and elsewhere in Europe to stop the tumor's growth were unsuccessful. He had three prior surgeries attempting to remove the tumor as well as radiation treatment, but Kosen kept growing and growing.
Slideshow: Guinness World Records It seems being this tall comes at a steep price. As a result, Kosen's skeletal frame was so big that his joints, bones and muscles were weak in relation to his height.
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