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heart rate of 26 and i feel good

Hi, my name is B and I'm from Israel, I'm 18.5 years old 166cm, weight 65kg and 2 days ago I was hospitalized for 1 night because my heart rate was at 26 bpm by ECG test and I felt completely normal.
a bit background about me, I am and always was an active person, really like sports, I've done a lot of types of sports even though I have asthma, I never let it stop me. I trained me for more than 3 years, riding skateboard, wave surfing, doing cross-fit, and more..
I get sometimes a Dyspnea (I think it's called that way) I use my Ventolin and keep on going like it never happened.
right now I'm serving IDF, but not as a fighter because I'm an asthmatic and the army not allow asthmatics as fighters I went to the hospital to meet a lung doctor Just to get a prescription for Serotide witch is a preventive treatment for asthma nothing special. we were talking about random things and then he checked my HR without connection to the asthma just because we had a discussion about random thing I can't even remember. he sows 30 bpm he was shocked like "are you okay, are you feeling normal?" I was like yeah I'm good even feel very good..
I knew my HR was low I thought something about 40 bpm and that it's normal..
he sends me to do ECG as fast as possible and sent the results to a cardiology. the cardiologist said the results are looking normal, but the HR was on 26BPM its crazy and they must hospitalize me immediately to check what's going on and how I'm not unconscious... they gave me a few tests to do immediately and I've made them almost without waiting (I have all the results I can send a photo if you interesting):
few blood tests, few more ECG's, Chest X-Ray, TTE, Exercise, Stress Test and they attached me to something that count my heart beat for the rest of the day and for the night I was there it was attached in 3 places on my chest and it showed during my time there HR of between 25 to 50 bpm.
On the day after the doctor came with all the results and everything looks good he didn't know what to do he gave me reference to do CMRI, TSH and Holter ECG Monitor and come back to the hospital in about 30 days.. so its 28 days now and I'm waiting for the tests I need to do.
now my question is your opinion, I feel really normal and healthy what do you thing? I can see the lowest HR ever recorded was 27 bpm and it was an hour of a runner and his age was 81 what dose it mean? am I super healthy? or am I sick, well I don't feel sick.. thanks for reading if you have extra questions or anything right it down
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144586 tn?1284666164
An EKG of 26 beats per minute is not normal. This is what is called a ventricular rhythym. Bear in mind the EKG does not reflect actual beats. Only electrical activity.
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12492606 tn?1459874033
You must be super fit.  My resting HR is in the 40's and nurses that don't know me always give me the "are you OK?" look.  As long as you feel fine and getting enough blood and oxygen, the heart rate is a non issue.  I had to look up what the world record was for lowest functioning heart rate and you are at that level.  Amongst the most elite of athletes and a few outliers.
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