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One of nine children, his shot-put talent was passed down to his family, with daughter Emma a Youth Olympics bronze medalist. His son, Lewis, has played American Football for the London Monarchs.
Geoff Capes, who twice won the World's Strongest Man in the 1980s and competed at three Olympic Games, as well as being a ...
Capes represented Britain at the Olympics in 1972, 1976 and 1980. His best result was a fifth-place finish in Moscow in 1980. He won gold in the shot put in the Commonwealth Games in 1974 and 1978, ...