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Geoff Capes, Twice-Crowned World’s Strongest Man Dies at 75

The famed Capes, an Olympian and Highland Games competitor, has died, according to his family.

Twice-crowned World’s Strongest Man Geoff Capes has died at 75, his family said Wednesday. Capes, who still held the British shot put record, competed in three Olympic Games from 1972 to 1980. In 1983 and 1985, Capes took home the title of World’s Strongest Man, and was a six-time world champion in the Highland Games, a renowned Scottish strength competition. According to his website, Capes—an iconic British TV star of the 70s and 80s—was 6 feet five and a half inches tall, and weighed 370 pounds at his peak. He also served as a policeman for 10 years, and was a famed breeder of budgerigars, a type of parakeet. Guinness World Records posted to X another record which he still held: “In 1978, Geoff threw a standard 2.27 kg (5 lb) building brick 44.54 m (146 ft 1 in) at Braybrook School in Cambridgeshire, U.K. His record has never been broken.”