Geoff Capes


  • From: Britain
  • Height: 6' 6"
  • Weight: 321 lbs.
  • Personal Info: Geoff was a great Highland Games competitor and the first of three men from Great Britain to win the title of World's Strongest Man. He also won the Europe's Strongest Man 3 times (1980, 82, and 84), won 2 World Muscle Power Championships, and won Britain's Strongest Man 3 times as well (1979, 81, and 83). He has a hobby of breeding parakeets and rare birds.


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Competition History

Year
# of Competitors
Place
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
 
10
10
10
8
8
8
8
 
3rd
2nd
          4th (Injured)
1st
3rd
1st
2nd


Download Geoff Capes Sound Clips:
"Without pain there is no gain, without pain there is no glory."
"If my best isn't good enough, then I'd like to see somebody else try in my place."
"If you only win one battle, you might not win the next one."


Copyright 1993 David Webster. Photo originally appears in book "Sons of Samson."
Other Pictures of Geoff Capes

Bending a Steel Bar (WSM 1982)
Loading blocks of ice (WSM 1984)