#4 Milind Soman – Actor
Milind Soman can easily be called as India’s unofficial celebrity brand ambassador for running, given how much he does for the sport around the year. Following a successful career in modelling, Soman took to running and has been following the sport quite seriously. He is known for running barefoot in a lot of events and famously completed the Iron Man Triathlon, which included a 3.8-km swim, a 180.2-km cycle ride and 42.2-km run.
He is active on the social media and keeps posting a lot of his running photographs. In a column written in Huffpost India, Soman expressed his love for running and explained how, over the years, he has grown even crazier. “I was saved by the Mumbai Marathon. In 2004, the first Mumbai marathon was held. I always had this notion in my head that a man must run at least one marathon in his life. So I prepared for around 3 months and ran a half marathon that year, rather casually. I was not prepared for what happened that day. I got hooked to running. And after a three-year struggle, I was able to stop smoking,“ he wrote.
