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Guinness World Records from its inception in 1955, began maintaining a list of the verified oldest people. [5] It developed into a list of all supercentenarians whose lifespan had been verified by at least three documents, in a standardized process, according to the norms of modern longevity research.
The list of records which the Guinness World Records covers is not fixed, records may be added and also removed for various reasons. The public is invited to submit applications for records, which can be either the bettering of existing records or substantial achievements which could constitute a new record. [ 60 ]
This category is for articles about a subject who at some point set a world record. They still qualify for this category even if they no longer hold the record because it was later surpassed, since they held it at some point in the past; much like deceased people are no longer actively doing politics but are still categorized as politicians.
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Guinness World Records verified Mohammed's height at 22 in (57 cm). [2] He was the shortest man ever verified up to 2012, when he lost the title to Chandra Bahadur Dangi. 1957–1997 Philippines: 60.0 cm (23.6 in) Junrey Balawing: Former shortest living man in the world, measuring 22.0 in (56.0 cm), verified by Guinness World Records in 2012. [3]
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
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