Tributes have poured in for “giant in heart and spirit” Geoff Capes, the British record-setting shot putter and two-time World’s Strongest Man champion who has died aged 75.

Geoff Capes, a British shot putter who was a three-time Olympian and won the World’s Strongest Man competition twice in the 1980s, has died at the age of 75.

Geoff Capes, who has died aged 75, was one of Britain’s most prolific and successful field athletes, and he used his immense physical ability to great effect in the second wind of his career when he became the “World’s Strongest Man”.