Geoff Capes RIP

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c36pn5d7eydo

Can’t see a thread?
Another part of my childhood has passed 🙁

Someone mentioned his name in a thread just the other day actually which I’d not heard for quite a while.

Everyone used to say, you’d have to be Geoff Capes to lift that, about something very heavy.

He was very prominent in childhood.

Rip Geoff.

I will try to bend an iron bar on the back of my neck and tear a phone book in half to honour the big man tomorrow night

I bought a budgie off him as a child.
Apparently he was a lovely chap, I was too young to remember.

Remember him as a child as a notable strong man. Before that it was only Russian weightlifters.

RIP Geoff.

Lived in my home village for a while – remember seeing him and I think Grizzly Brown  walking towards me down the main street and realising how small I was.

A couple of mates trained at his gym in Spalding, bit too hard-core for me.

As a kid I thought Geoff looked just like my dad. Turns out he was one year younger.

That video!

RIP

Whenever I try to bend something at work I always think of him, he used to say you have to keep the momentum to bend a bit of metal, don’t stop half way you’ll never get going again

He seemed like the very definition of the ‘gentle giant’.

Everyone commenting who knew him said what a gentleman he was

I still bloody love watching the worlds strongest man and that’s probably down to watching Mr Capes as a kid

RIP big lad