William Frank (athlete)

William Frank

Frank at the finish of the 1906 Olympic Marathon
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  United States
Intercalated Games
1906 Athens Marathon

William Gottlieb Frank (December 1, 1878 – March 31, 1965) was an American athlete who was born in Besigheim, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.[1] He arrived in the United States in 1889.[2] Frank was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club and the Twenty-Second Regiment of the New York National Guard. Frank was also a police officer assigned to the New York City Police Department's 74th Precinct.[3]

Competing as a member of the New York National Guard, Twenty-second Regiment, Frank won the 3-mile race for the championship of the Military Athletic League in 1905.[4] He also won the national indoor 10-mile championship at Madison Square Garden in 1906.[5]

He competed for the United States in the 1906 Intercalated Games held in Athens, Greece in the 5 mile race and the Marathon, where he came in third place, winning the bronze medal.

About 1902 he married Adelaide Wingrove, a native of Astoria, and they had one child, a daughter Adelaide Johanna, in 1903.

Notes

  1. ↑ United States, Selective Service System. Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group Number 147. National Archives and Records Administration.
  2. ↑ United States Federal Census. ear: 1900; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: 1117; Page: 18A; Enumeration District: 0821; FHL microfilm: 1241117.
  3. ↑ "Bingham Pleased with Police Games." New York Times, Oct. 6. 1907.
  4. ↑ "JOYCE BEATEN BY FRANK.; National Champion Loses Military Event at Eighth Regiment Games." New York Times, February 19, 1905.
  5. ↑ "GALLANT FELLOWS UPHOLDING THE HONOR OF STARS AND STRIPES.; Short Biography of the Athletes Who Are Representing America Among Champions of the World at Olympic Games." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 29, 1906, p. 9B.


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