Chinese Zhang Tzuyu went to first grade with a height of 160 cm. Now she is considered the tallest girl in the world. How does she live with such growth and who does she want to become in the future?
How tall do you think is tall? 1.8 m? 2 m? These are all small things compared to the height of a ninth-grader from China's Shandong province. At the age of 14, the girl has reached 226 cm and has long left behind the world record among children, which is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. But this is not the main achievement of the teenager: this summer she became the best basketball player among the juniors in China. How does a giant girl live in ordinary life? Is she teased at school? How do scientists and doctors explain the phenomenal growth of the child? Read in our material.
Chinese woman Zhang Tzuyu is in 9th grade and literally stands out from her peers. She is only 14 years old, but the girl is twice as tall as most of her classmates. Now he is 226 cm - this is a real record by world standards, and even more so for China (the average height of the Chinese is 165 cm for men and 155 cm for women).
Zhang Tzuyu has always stood out among classmates / photo peoples.ru
The girl began to grow intensively already at preschool age: at the age of six, her height reached 160 cm, and at the age of 10 she exceeded two meters. This became the determining factor for who she would become in the future - Zhang Tzuyu has been fond of basketball since childhood. Now she plays for the school team, and this summer has become a real social media star. Thanks to her gigantic stature, Zhang managed to snatch victory for her team in the Children's National Women's Basketball League.
On the basketball court, Zhang has a clear priority / photo bigpicture.ru
In his spare time, Zhang goes to a regular high school. Teachers say that she is distinguished by diligence: in addition to physical education, she is also good at all other subjects. Also, the girl is fond of singing and dancing. The only problem is that it is very uncomfortable for her to study in a regular class. Therefore, from the very beginning of his studies, Zhang had to make a custom-made school desk.
At school for the girl, I had to build a separate desk / photo peoples.ru
No one dares to tease a girl at school - with such parameters and physical development, Zhang Tzuyu will easily pacify any offender. But she has a lot of friends. Children love that a friend can "lift them up to the sky." The only thing is that it is difficult to communicate with Zhang for a long time: in order to talk, classmates and even teachers have to turn their heads up high.
It is not easy to communicate with the tallest girl in the world / photo azhibo5.com
Parents call heredity the reason for the girl's phenomenal growth. Both dad and mom Zhang Tzuyu are professional basketball players in the past. The height of the father today is 213 cm, and that of the mother is 198 cm. So it is not surprising that with such genes the girl also "went up".
Even adults look at Zhang from the bottom up / photo bigpicture.ru
However, doctors believe that such intense growth during childhood may be a sign of chromosomal or cancer. For example, the current record holder among children, Sophie Hollins from Great Britain (height 189 cm), has Marfan syndrome. One of the tallest girls in the world, Brazilian Elisani Silva (height 206 cm) suffers from gigantism. And the Chinese woman Yao Defen, who is considered the tallest woman in the world (236 cm tall), suffered from a tumor in the pituitary gland of the brain.
Elisani Silva with a height of 206 cm suffers from gigantism / photo privately.ru
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