Former athlete and police officer Geoff Capes won the Commonwealth and European shot-put titles twice before quitting from the sport in 1980. Geof, now 63 and divorced, lives in Lincolnshire with his girlfriend, Kash. He has two grown children from his marriage, Emma and Lewis. Geoff Capes was born on August 4th,1958 in Liverpool, England. His father was a train driver while his mother worked in an insurance office. He had one sister who is also an athlete: Natalie who plays field hockey. When he was only eight years old, Geoff started training for sports competitions and by the age of 12, he became one of the best shot putters in Europe. In 1975 at the World Youth Championships in Tampere, Finland, Geoff threw 19.5 meters (64 ft 10 in) to win the gold medal. This is still the British record today. At the same competition, his older brother Alan also won a silver medal. The family lived in France after they moved to America when Geoff was 11 years old. He attended St. Andrew's School in New York City where he met his future wife Kash Muggleton. They both joined the track and field team at Rutgers University but didn't finish their studies there. After they got married in 1982, Geoff stopped training for four years to take care of his new baby daughter Leah.