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Hey Pingping, 2009

He Pingping ( Chinese  何 平平 , Pinyin Hé Píngpíng ; born July 13, 1988 in Huade , China , † March 13, 2010 in Rome ) was the smallest man in the world who could walk until 2010 .

The small He had the bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta , which among other things led to slower growth. According to his family, he stopped growing at the age of 18. His two older sisters, with whom He ran a café, are of normal height.

He Pingping was discovered by a journalist in his home village. He was officially measured in March 2008 and, with a height of 74.61 centimeters, declared in the Guinness Book of Records to be the world's "smallest living man (movable)". As a result, He became a media favorite and appeared on various talk shows . In 2008 and 2009, He, who had become a popular advertising medium for the Guinness Publishing House, presented the new Guinness Book of Records to the world press and traveled to Japan, Germany and America, among others. Various PR events brought the "busy and media-savvy" He together with other record holders, including the tallest person in the world, Bao Xishun (236 cm) in 2007 and Sultan Kösen (247 cm) in 2010, as well as the woman with the longest legs in the world according to the Guinness Book, Svetlana Pankratowa.

He died of a heart attack on March 13, 2010 at the age of 21 while filming a television show. The chain smoker had been treated for chest pain two weeks earlier. The editor-in-chief of the Guinness Book of Records , Craig Glenday, praised He as "an inspiration for all [...] who are different or unusual" and stated that he "made a great impression on such a small man [...] around the world World ”. In the edition of the Guinness Book of Records , published in the year of his death, He was remembered even before a successor was determined. At the beginning of September 2010, the 24-year-old Colombian Edward Niño Hernández (70.21 cm) was chosen as the smallest living man, who is four centimeters shorter than He. In October of the same year, the Nepalese Khagendra Thapa Magar (67.08 cm) took over the title after he had come of age.

Web links

Commons : He Pingping  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Smallest Man in the World": Pingping is dead . n-tv, March 15, 2010.
  2. ↑ The heart of the smallest man in the world failed . Spiegel Online ( Memento from April 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Entry in the Guinness Book of Records
  4. ↑ He Ping Ping measures 74 centimeters: the smallest man really big . In RP Online, February 13, 2009 ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  5. ^ Tracy Connor: World's shortest man, He Pingping, makes trip to New York City . New York Daily News, September 19, 2008
  6. ↑ He Pingping: Smallest man in the world died of heart problems . Spiegel Online, March 16, 2010
  7. ↑ "Smallest Man in the World": Pingping is dead . n-tv, March 15, 2010.
  8. ↑ The heart of the smallest man in the world failed . stern.de ( Memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. He is the family name here, Pingping is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hey pinging
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese short stature, smallest man in the world who can walk
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Huade , Ulanqab
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2010
Place of death Rome