The heart of the tallest man in America fails him.. The owner of two meters and 35 cm leaves in the spring of life

  • Igor Vovkovinsky died at the age of 38. AP

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The tallest man in the United States, two meters and 35 centimeters tall, according to official measurements, died last Friday of heart disease at the age of 38 in Minnesota, as his mother announced on Facebook.

Ukrainian-American Igor Vovkovinsky had been battling the disease all his life due to a tumor that caused him to secrete excessive growth hormones.

Precisely for this reason, when he was a child, his family moved to Rochester, a city in the northern United States known for its health services.

Igor kept getting taller despite all the treatments given to him until he reached a record height for the United States certified by delegates in the Guinness Book of Records when he was 27 years old.

During the 2013 edition of the Eurovision contest, Igor carried on the stage the singer, who represented Ukraine.

He had also caught the attention of US President Barack Obama when he greeted him during a political rally in 2009, during which he was wearing a T-shirt that read "The biggest supporter of Obama in the world."

It was mentioned in the Guinness Book that the tallest man in the world is the Turkish Sultan Kosen (two meters and 51 centimeters).

However, the tallest man in contemporary history is the American Robert Wadlow, who reached two meters and 72 centimeters.

He was also suffering from excessive secretion of growth hormones and died in 1940 at the age of 22.

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