| Suhas Khamkar | |
|---|---|
| Personal Info | |
| Born | 9th of August 1980 Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India |
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Professional Career | |
| Best win | Mr India , Mr Asia 2010, 2010 |
Suhas Khamkar (born August 9, 1980) is a professional bodybuilder from India. A native of Kolhapur region, Suhas comes from a family of fitness experts and bodybuilders. Suhas's inspiration for body building can be traced back to his home town Kolhapur where he grew up watching many wrestlers and body builders. Lack of knowledge and experience regarding the professional sport of bodybuilding presented Suhas with a unique challenge. However in the year 1997 at the age of 16, Suhas drew inspiration from Arnold Schwarzenegger and embarked on a journey of becoming a world champion in the sport of bodybuilding.
Suhas started his training under Bibhishan Patil,a famous wrestler and also a Kolhapur native. Bibhishal Patil taught Suhas various attributes & techniques of bodybuilding and rendered detailed information about the sport. After his family moved to Mumbai, Suhas continued working on his fitness and career goal and took inspiration from a lot of local bodybuilders along the way.
An employee of Central Railway of India, Suhas Khamkar is the first to win a national level gold medal in the Railways national competitions.
Suhas is also an enterprenuer and runs Khamkar's Total Fitness[1]
During his 12 years of successful professional career in bodybuilding, Suhas has won various accolades at the state and national level. Some of the prestigious awards to suhas credit are listed below:
suhas won almost all championship titles in western Maharastra for past 7 to 8 years and is distinguised as the first bodybuilder of Maharastrian origin.