Milind finishes 42.2 km marathon in 4 hrs, 32 min

Model-actor Milind Soman has completed the 42.2 km Berlin Marathon in 4 hours and 32 minutes.  Soman, a fitness enthusiast, is also the brand ambassador of ‘Pinkathon’, India’s biggest ‘women only’ marathon. Milind Soman was born in a Maharashtrian middle-class family in Glasgow, Scotland. His family moved to a place near London, England where he lived until the age of seven,

then his family moved back to India and settled in Dadar in Mumbai in 1972 . His father Prabhakar Soman was a nuclear scientist with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre while his mother Usha is a biochemist, who taught at Wilson College, Mumbai .

Soman has two elder sisters Netra and Medha, and one younger sister, Anupama who is a year younger to him. Soman’s all four grandparents were doctors. Soman did his schooling from Dr. Antonio Da Silva High School and Jr. College of Commerce, Dadar, Mumbai. Later, he completed his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from M. H. Saboo Siddik Polytechnic, Byculla. He was a national-level swimmer for India and was then discovered as a model.

On 20 May 2012 he became a Limca Record holder for running 1,500 km in 30 days for Greenathon, NDTV to spread environmental awareness. The same year the country’s largest ‘women’s only’ running event Pinkathon was set up under his guidance, to promote good health and breast cancer awareness amongst women.