World’s smallest man meets woman with longest legs

Today worlds shortest man Ping met with Svetalna Pankrtova who is the women with longest legs

PinpPing sits on a piles of the new book while Pankratova stretches out her long, long legs

Standing at just 2ft 5in high, He Pingping, from China, has been officially named the smallest man in the world.

Svetlana Pankratova, meanwhile, owns the longest legs in the world, which stretch to 132cm.

Not that He Ping Ping seemed to mind, happily posing underneath Pankratova’s legs – and he even had a sneaky look up.

The 20-year-old had jetted in from his home in northern China to help launch the latest edition of the Guinness World Records Book in Trafalgar Square, Central London.

He said: ‘It’s a great job, and there’s so much travel involved. Earlier this year I did my own world record for travel, which was 44 hours non-stop.

‘I was in Inner Mongolia meeting He Ping Ping, the world’s shortest man (74.61cm) who actually lives quite near Bao Xi Shun, the world’s tallest man (2m, 36.1cm).

‘I was on my way, via Paris, to Chile for a flight to Antarctica with the band Fall Out Boy, who were trying to set a record for the shortest time it would take to play on every continent in the world.

‘Unfortunately the weather was so bad that we couldn’t make it in the end.’

The Guinness World Record Book is out tomorrow.

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