World’s shortest teenager named as 18-year-old from Nepal measuring 2ft 4.9in – World News

Dor Bahadur Khapangi measures a top of 73.43cm (2ft 4.9in) and was given a Guinness World Information certificates throughout an awards ceremony in Kathmandu on Monday

A Nepalese man has set the report for the world’s shortest dwelling male teenager at a top of 73.43cm (2ft 4.9in).

Dor Bahadur Khapangi, 18, was given a Guinness World Information certificates in Kathmandu on Monday, in accordance with native media studies.

Footage present him posing alongside his brother Nara Bahadur Khapangi, who carried him to the award ceremony, and CEO of Nepal Tourism Board, Dhananjay Regmi.

He was additionally seen strolling along with his younger niece Om Kumari Pulami Magar forward of the occasion, which was held by the nation’s nationwide tourism group. Photographers and reporters had been later noticed crowding round to take a snap of him posing atop a ledge.

Dor’s Guinness World Information certificates reads: “The shortest teenager dwelling (male) is Dor Bahadur Khapangi (Nepal, b. 14 November 2004) who measured a median of 73.43cm (2ft 4.9in) in Kathmandu, Nepal on 23 March 2022.”

Beforehand, Jyoti Amge from India was named the world’s shortest dwelling teenager at 61.95cm (2ft) in 2009.

She has since been confirmed because the world’s shortest dwelling feminine, measuring 62.8cm (2ft 0.72in) on her 18th birthday in 2011, and has retained the report for over a decade.

Jyoti as soon as met with Khagendra Thapa Magar, from Nepal, who was named the world’s shortest male teenager in 2010.

She mentioned on the time: “After I met the shortest man on this planet and received to know him, I felt very pleased.

“I felt extra included and extra glad that there’s anyone like me too.”

Khagendra turned the world’s shortest dwelling male earlier than sadly passing away on the age of 27 in 2020.

In December final yr, an 18-year-old American was given the Guinness World Document title of the shortest non-mobile girl on this planet, standing at simply 2ft 4inches tall.

Wildine Aumoithe, from Miami, Florida, has the rarest type of dwarfism, referred to as SADDAN dysplasia, and her dad and mom had been instructed that she would not survive 24 hours after she was born.

Nonetheless, Wildine defied the chances and celebrated her 18th birthday earlier in 2021. She beforehand mentioned: “It feels superb to have a Guinness World Document title, I’m actually happy with it.

“I’m additionally the primary Haitian-American to carry the shortest girl report which makes it even cooler.”

She added: “I need folks to see that us little folks could be very profitable and [I want to] advocate for folks with dwarfism.”

And the earlier report for the world’s shortest non-mobile girl was held by Madge Bester, from South Africa, who was handed the award in 1999.

She was 65cm (25.5in) tall and sadly handed away in March 2018 after affected by Osteogenesis imperfecta, an inherited bone dysfunction that’s current at delivery.

Her mom, named Winnie, was additionally a wheelchair consumer and measured solely 5cm taller at 70cm (27.5in).