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milyon88 Geoff Capes, World’s Strongest Man, Is Dead at 75
Geoff Capesmilyon88, a herculean wonder from the English countryside who, in addition to winning the World’s Strongest Man competition twice, was a champion breeder of parakeets, an activity that provided an escape from stunts like bending steel bars around his neck, died on Oct. 23 in Lincoln, England, in the East Midlands. He was 75.
The death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his son, Lewis Capes, who did not specify a cause.
At 6-foot-6 and 365 pounds, Mr. Capes was a crushing Adonis whose daily diet consisted of seven pints of milk, two loaves of bread, a dozen eggs, two steaks, a jar of baked beans, two tins of sardines, a pound of butter and a leg of lamb.
His gargantuan caloric intake powered his extraordinary feats in strongman competitions: pulling 12-ton trucks uphill, flipping cars, tearing London phone books in half and tossing five-pound bricks as if they were Kleenex boxes. He could run 200 meters — nearly the length of two American football fields — in under 25 seconds.
“When you saw him sprint, you realized just what an absolutely terrifying athlete he was, as in terrifyingly good,” Colin Bryce, a television commentator for the World’s Strongest Man competition, said in an interview. “He wasn’t just a big lump.”
Mr. Capes won the World’s Strongest Man title in 1983 and 1985. He won the U.K. Truck-Pulling Championship in 1986. And he was a six-time champion of the World Highland Games, a competition of traditional Scottish sports during which participants wear kilts while throwing heavy objects, including telegraph poles.
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