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Official: Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a 72-year-old Nepali poses with his certificates after being declared the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records officials at 21.5 inches.
The previous record for the world's fattest man was also held by a Mexican, Manuel Uribe, from Monterrey, who weighed 88 stone. He died last year, aged 48. The heaviest person in medical history was an American, Jon Brower Minnoch, who weighed 100 stone when he visited University Hospital, Seattle in 1976. He died in 1983, aged 42. Britain's fattest man, Carl Thompson, died this year aged 33, weighing 65 stone.