Geoff Capes, British Olympian and World’s Strongest Man, dies age 75

Capes pictured training with straw bales in 1978 - (Getty Images)

Geoff Capes, a three-time Olympics competitor for Great Britain in the shot put, has died at the age of 75.

The Lincolnshire-born athlete featured at Munich in 1972, the ‘76 Montreal Games and four years later in Moscow, while he also won gold for Britain twice at the Commonwealth Games and on a further two occasions at the European Indoor Championships, all during the 70s.