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Frank Spellman established two Olympic records enroute to a gold medal at the
1948 Olympic Games in London. His clean and jerk of 336.25 pounds set a new
Olympic Middleweight record, as did his record-setting total lift of 859.5 pounds
(390 kgs.). Spellman enjoyed a long and successful career as a weightlifter, winning
his last championship in 1971 at the age of 49. Frank Spellman has been
elected to the United States Weightlifting Hall of Fame, the Helms (Amateur
Athletic Federation) Hall of Fame, and the Porterville Quarterback Hall of Fame.
Representing the York Barbell Team of York, Pennsylvania, Spellman won his
first U.S. championship, the Middleweight Junior title, in 1942. In 1946, and
again in 1948, the year of his Olympic victory, Spellman won the U.S. National
Middleweight title. He captured the North American Middleweight crown in
1949. And, in 1961, at the age of 39, he won his third U.S. National Middleweight
championship.
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