Frank Isaac Spellman (September 17, 1922 – January 12, 2017) was an American machinist and photographer and a middleweight Olympic champion weightlifter.
[3][7] Beginning a long career in the sport, at the age of twenty, he became a US junior champion in middleweight representing the York Barbell Club.
[8] Drafted in 1942, Spellman served in the United States Army for three years during World War II.
[3][7] Spellman died on January 12, 2017, at the age of ninety-four at Baptist Hospital in Gold Breeze.
He had two brothers, Charlie and Harold, two sisters, Ethyl and Frances, and six children: Danny, Kevin, Katie, Yvonne, Larry, and Steve.
[14] In 1949 Spellman won the North American middleweight title, and finished second in the United States championships.
[5][14] Spellman competed at the 1950 Maccabiah Games in Israel, and won a gold medal at middleweight.
[13][5] Spellman resumed competing in 1971, at the age of forty-nine, and won his third national AAU middleweight title that year.