Arambam Boby

Arambam Boby is an Indian bodybuilder from Manipur, born on 1 February 1975 into a Meitei family. He lost his father at the age of two and finished school only to matriculation. He joined the Sports Authority of India at Langol as a gymnast in 1989 and the Sashastra Seema Bal as a constable in 1993, where he ran the 100 and 200 metres. He took up bodybuilding in 1995, won the Mr. Manipur Junior and Senior overall titles in 1996 and represented India at the junior Asian championship in Delhi. After joining the Indian Railways he won Mr. India in 1998 and his first Mr. World title in 2010 in the 75 kg class at Varanasi. The article credits him with three Mr. South Asia, five Mr. Asia, eight Mr. World and twelve Mr. India titles, and he now runs his own gym in Imphal and held the first Boby Classic in 2021.