Lars Hedlund from Sweden finished second after finishing second the previous year, and Geoff Capes from the United Kingdom finished third.
Geoff Capes, the Commonwealth shot put champion and two times winner of the title of World's Strongest Man, served as a police officer here in the 1970s.
In 1988 he took the title of East Britain's Strongest Man and entered John Smith's Trial of Strength, a competition organised by Geoff Capes and David Webster in order to find the successor to the retired Capes.
Sigmarsson was invited to the World's Strongest Man competition for the first time in 1983, in which he came in second only to Geoff Capes.
Lewis Capes is the son of the former British shot putter and two-time World's Strongest Man winner Geoff Capes.
The quality of the event was further enhanced by being overseen by the former British, European and World's Strongest Man, Geoff Capes.
In 1983, the young powerlifter and bodybuilder, Jón Páll Sigmarsson entered the 1983 World's Strongest Man competition and was only beaten into second place by the experienced Geoff Capes.
In the first three decades of the competition there have been thirteen champions, with four men each having won the title five times, Geoff Capes, Jim McGoldrick, Ryan Vierra and Matt Sandford, and one of those, Geoff Capes, having also won the 1981 World Highland Games Championships held in Lagos, which would make him six times world champion, although this is not listed on the official website.
As with its two international counterparts it attracted the top quality strength athletes of its era, which included every winner of the World's Strongest Man competition from 1980 onwards including Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Geoff Capes and Bill Kazmaier from the 1980s right up to the current WSM champion Žydrūnas Savickas.
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The event immediately attracted the very best athletes in the field and the final placings in that inaugural 1987 competition saw both Jon Pall Sigmarsson and Geoff Capes on the podium.
Geoff Hurst | Geoff Corrigan | Geoff Capes | Geoff Downes | Geoff Hoon | The Geoff Show | Geoff Tate | Geoff Ryman | Geoff Johns | Geoff Cox | Geoff Keighley | Geoff Emerick | Geoff Southern | Geoff Marsh | Geoff Edwards | Geoff Crammond | Geoff Regan | Geoff Miller | Geoff Eigenmann | Geoff Dyer | Geoff Barton | Geoff Stephens | Geoff Senior | Geoff Rowley | Geoff Roes | Geoff Petrie | Geoff Page | Geoff Moore | Geoff Love | Geoff Lloyd |