Geoff Capes, Olympic athlete and two-time World’s Strongest Man, dies: his crazy diet
Geoff Capestwice strongest man in the world and famous british shot putterdied at 75 years old.
The athlete of 1.97m. and 170 kilos became for several decades one of Britain’s most popular athletes.
Geoff Capes, two-time World’s Strongest Man and three-time Olympian, dies
He was champion of Europe, Great Britain and the Commonwealthare national shot put record (21.68 m.) has been in force since 1980 and ccompeted in three Olympic Games.
Geoff Capes’ tough childhood: he carried 20 tons of potatoes in 20 minutes
Geoff Capes, who he left school at 14 years olddemonstrated his strength since his adolescence working as a charcoal burner and farmermanaging to load 20 tons of potatoes in 20 minutes.
My family was on the lowest rung of that very long ladder that is the English class system.
“My family was not only working class, but it was on the lowest rung of that very long ladder that is the English class system,” Capes himself said about his childhood.
The athlete Stuart Storey discovered him for athletics, and since then his life changed.
Geoff Capes’ crazy daily diet: 2.7 kilos of red meat, 12 eggs, sardines, cottage cheese, beans…
Geoff Capes’ daily diet to maintain his prodigious physique became very popular in the United Kingdom: 2.7 kilos of red meat, a dozen eggs, a large can of baked beans, two cans of sardines, 600 grams of cottage cheese, a packet of cereal, two large loaves of bread, 400 grams of butter, a liter of orange juice and seven liters of milk.
How and when did Geoff Capes become the World’s Strongest Man?
Geoff Capes, who worked as a police officer and it was a great defender of parakeetswon the World’s Strongest Man title in 1983 and 1985 and finished in the competition’s top three four more times.
“I was at a disadvantage in the World’s Strongest Man competition. I can tell you that. But I beat them in natural strength, speed, agility and coordination. It made me some money and took me to a lot of places,” he recalled in ‘The Telegraph’.
His World’s Strongest Man titles made him a television star.
