Edward Niño Hernández

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Edward Niño Hernández (born May 10, 1986 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian dancer and with a height of 72 centimeters the smallest living ambulatory man in the world.

Life

Edward Niño Hernández is the eldest of five brothers and lives in the Bosa district in the south of Bogotá. He weighed only 1,300 grams at birth and spent the first two months of life in the incubator with a critical prognosis . According to older statements from his mother Noemí Hernández, he stopped growing completely at the age of two. He himself called 2010 the end of growth at the age of four. His father Eliecer Niño Gamboa works as a security guard for security services , was for a time but also unemployed.

One sister was also short and died in 1992 in the first year of her life. Edwards' youngest brother, Miguel Ángel, who was born in 1999, looks very much like him physically and was only 23 centimeters taller than him when he was eleven. Even as a child he supported him in many aspects of everyday life, as he was more agile and could climb stairs better than Edward. Today he is more than twice the size of his brother. The other three siblings, like both parents, are of normal stature. The medical cause of the stunted growth could not be clarified even after three years of examination by doctors from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in his childhood. It wasn't until 2010 that the short stature was revealed to be due to a severe form of hypothyroidism , a dysfunction of the thyroid gland . Edward suffered from cataracts in both eyes and has no other major health problems. However, he gets tired quickly and is prone to depression despite his humorous appearance. Since his family could not pay for the necessary eye surgery, he could see very poorly and therefore could hardly read and write because of his small hands. He is sometimes difficult to understand because of his high-pitched voice. He had to repeat several years of school and finished his training in the 7th grade because the teasing and bullying attacks by classmates became unbearable. He has since made some money doing reggaeton dance performances in malls and stores, and played a drug dealer in an action film . It was only after he won the title in autumn 2010 that his eyes were operated on.

In 2007 he was discovered as the smallest man in Colombia after a visit by a reporter and applied to Guinness a few years later. The Colombian was named the smallest living man in the world by the Guinness Book of Records on September 4, 2010 , after the previous title holder, the four centimeter taller Chinese He Pingping , passed away on March 13, 2010. His height, officially determined by the Guinness jurors at the time, was 70.21 centimeters. After less than six weeks, however, the title passed to Khagendra Thapa Magar on October 14, 2010 , a 67 centimeter tall Nepalese who turned 18 that day. Niño Hernández continued to be known as the smallest man in Colombia.

On September 9, 2010, Edward Niño Hernández was received by the recently-elected Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos , who danced in front of him and from whom he received a laptop, four CDs and a free Colombian Health Insurance Card ( SISBEN ). In November 2010 he appeared in Buenos Aires as a guest on the show by the Argentine entertainer Susana Giménez . Shortly before, he had survived his eye operation and therefore wore the dark sunglasses that had been typical of him for some time. Plans that would enable him to travel further abroad as a Colombian ambassador of sympathy did not materialize because of the rapid end of his record-holding position. Niño subsequently appeared in various television programs, but - contrary to what relatives and neighbors expected - hardly earned any money with his title, which led to tension among family friends. The family declined the offer of a 1.82-meter-tall model, which Edward's mother suggested to pretend to be his girlfriend and thus attract attention.

He continued to perform with dance programs in discos and in front of supermarkets, also in other cities in the country. In December 2012, he fulfilled his long-cherished dream of flying by lifting himself from a cluster of gas balloons into the air as the mascot of the Colombian-Mexican e-commerce mail order company Linio , which is part of the Tengelmann Group, in front of spectators in a park in northern Bogotá. As a street dancer, Niño Hernández dances mainly to reggaeton, merengue and vallenato . However, he does not like to be alone in public. A total of seven times in the course of his life, the 11 kilo man was picked up on the street and taken away by strangers who wanted to sell him as an attraction.

After the death of Khagendra Thapa Magar on January 17, 2020, Niño Hernández received the world record back as the smallest living walking man with his newly measured current height of 72.10 cm. The regained title was awarded to him on May 11, 2020 at the celebration of his 34th birthday during the corona pandemic in a hospital in Bogotá in the presence of his orthopedist Cristina Suárez. The smallest living man in the world at that time was the 27-year-old Filipino Junrey Balawing with a height of 59.93 centimeters, but who was immobile. Balawing died on July 28, 2020.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e Récord Guinness: el exhombre más bajo del mundo recuperó el título tras 10 años. In: La Nación , May 13, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ a b c Colombian is the smallest man in the world / Un colombiano es el hombre más pequeño del mundo / Introducing the world's shortest man: 27ins tall Colombian dancer enters Guinness Book of Records ( AP ). In: Märkische Oderzeitung (German) / El Colombiano (Spanish) / Daily Mail (English). September 6, 2010, accessed May 11, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Alejandro Aguirre: Edward Niño, el hombre más pequeño del mundo es un gigante de la vida. In: El País (Colombia) . September 11, 2010, accessed May 11, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ a b Saludcoop debe garantizarle la atención a Edward Niño Hernández. Press release of the Colombian Ministry of Health of April 30, 2012, accessed May 2020 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ a b c Sommer Brokaw: Edward Nino Hernandez breaks world's shortest living man record. UPI , May 12, 2020, accessed May 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c Camilo Jiménez: Little man, what now? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 16, 2010, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Small, Smaller, Edward Nino Hernandez. In: Der Spiegel . September 6, 2010, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Colombian declared world's shortest man. In: BBC News . September 6, 2010, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  10. ^ World's shortest man named as 27ins tall Colombian. In: The Telegraph . September 6, 2010, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b Hardly bigger than the Guinness book. In: Der Spiegel , October 14, 2010, accessed on May 11, 2020.
  12. ↑ Rachel Swatman: When Edward Niño Hernandez was declared the world's shortest man. In: Guinness World Records , September 6, 2016, accessed May 11, 2020.
  13. ↑ a b Kristen Stephenson: New record holder for the world's shortest man living confirmed as Edward Niño Hernández of Colombia. In: Guinness World Records , May 12, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020.
  14. ↑ a b Hombre más pequeño de Colombia cumplió su sueño de volar. In: El País (Colombia). December 12, 2012, accessed May 11, 2020 (Spanish).
  15. ^ Edward Hernández, el hombre más pequeño del mundo, estará con Susana Gimenez. In: El Once . November 13, 2010, accessed May 11, 2020 (Spanish).
  16. ↑ El colombiano Edward Niño Hernández volvió a ser el hombre más bajo del mundo. In: El País (Colombia). January 17, 2020, accessed May 11, 2020 (Spanish).
  17. ↑ Guinness World Records 2019. German-language edition. P. 84.
  18. ↑ World's shortest man dies at 27. In: ABS-CBN News Channel . January 18, 2020, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Niño Hernández, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian actor and dancer, smallest man in the world who can walk
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogotá