16 Facts About Frank Spellman

Frank Isaac Spellman was an American machinist and photographer and a middleweight Olympic champion weightlifter.

Frank Spellman won a gold medal at the 1950 Maccabiah Games.

Frank Spellman resumed competing in 1961 and won another AAU title that year.

Frank Spellman was born in Malvern, Pennsylvania, to Sara, an Austrian immigrant and seamstress, and David, a German immigrant and stone quarry foreman who died at forty-eight years of age, and was Jewish.

Frank Spellman died on January 12,2017, at the age of ninety-four at Baptist Hospital in Gold Breeze.

Frank Spellman was preceded in death by his wife Camylle Spellman.

Frank Spellman had two brothers, Charlie and Harold, two sisters, Ethyl and Frances, and six children: Danny, Kevin, Katie, Yvonne, Larry, and Steve.

In 1942, Frank Spellman won the US middleweight junior title in weightlifting.

Frank Spellman won a bronze medal at the 1946 World Weightlifting Championships.

Frank Spellman won the US Amateur Athletic Union middleweight championship.

Frank Spellman won a silver medal at the 1947 World Weightlifting Championships, and a silver medal at the 1947 US championships.

In 1949 Frank Spellman won the North American middleweight title, and finished second in the United States championships.

Frank Spellman competed at the 1950 Maccabiah Games in Israel, and won a gold medal at middleweight.

Frank Spellman resumed competing in 1971, at the age of forty-nine, and won his third national AAU middleweight title that year.

Frank Spellman was elected to the United States Weightlifting Hall of Fame, the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame, and the Porterville Quarterback Hall of Fame.

Frank Spellman was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.