Bobby Body

Bobby Body, born on 24 June 1974, is an American Paralympic powerlifter who has won medals at the World Championships and the Parapan American Games and competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, where he finished fourth. Before his powerlifting career he served in the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. He was born in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, to a military family, with a Korean mother and an African-American father. His mother left when he was five and his father was arrested five years later, leaving him and his sister orphaned and sent to the VFW National Home in Eaton Rapids, where he stayed until high school. He studied criminal justice at Ferris State University.