Standing 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighing more than 60 pounds, Geoff Capes was a “powerful figure who commanded international respect as a shot putter,” he said. the guardian: Won gold at the Commonwealth Games in 1974 and 1978 and represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games; but in the 1980s he became much better known as Britain’s Strongest Man (a title he won in 1979) and World’s Strongest Man (in 1983 and 1985). From then on he was regularly seen on British television screens throwing cables, dragging trucks and destroying telephone books.

A frequent guest on “Record Breakers,” Capes earned a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing a brick 146 feet, he said. The daily telegraph. He won the World Highland Games five times and was Scottish Highland Games champion seven times. When he wasn’t exercising his enormous muscles, he raised budgies. He became interested in birds in the 1970s when he worked for Cambridgeshire Police. Sent to arrest a man for non-payment of a fine, he noticed his collection of parakeets and, over a cup of tea, they had a “pleasant chat” about them. “I thought it was a shame when, after finishing the conversation, I suddenly remembered what I had to do,” he recalled.