Renowned shot putter and two-time World’s Strongest Man, Geoff Capes, has passed away at 75. The news of his death has sent shockwaves through the athletic world and beyond. Following his passing, ...

Former Olympian and World’s Strongest Man Geoff Capes died Wednesday at the age of 75, his family said. A cause of death was not disclosed. Capes, born in the England in 1949, was famous across his ...

Geoff Capes, who has died aged 75, was one of Britain’s most prolific and successful field athletes, and he used his immense physical ability to great effect in the second wind of his career when he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Capes pictured training with straw bales in 1978 (Getty Images) Geoff Capes, a three-time Olympics competitor for Great Britain in ...

Geoff Capes, who has died at the age of 75, became one of the most recognisable faces in Great Britain after following up a glittering athletics career by twice becoming the World’s Strongest Man.

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With a height of just under 6ft 6in, Geoff Capes was a sporting icon with a towering presence. The three-time Olympian and two-time world's strongest man has held the British shot put record since ...

LONDON — Geoff Capes, the British shot put record holder and two-time world's strongest man, has died aged 75. Capes set the record for the longest shot put by a British man with a distance of 21.68m ...

Standing 6ft 6in, and weighing more than 26 stone, Geoff Capes was a "mighty figure who commanded international respect as a shot-putter", said The Guardian: he won gold in the Commonwealth Games in ...

LONDON — Geoff Capes, a British shot putter who was a three-time Olympian and won the World’s Strongest Man competition twice in the 1980s, has died. He was 75. Capes' death was announced by British ...

Geoff Capes, a three-time Olympics competitor for Great Britain in the shot put, has died at the age of 75. The Lincolnshire-born athlete featured at Munich in 1972, the ‘76 Montreal Games and four ...